Independent Politic - with David Allen  

There are those who said we needed three to five hundred thousand troops to do the job right. How long would we have been able to sustain a deployment of 400,000 troops in Iraq, and after four years where would we have gotten the 2,500,000 troops to replace them, without a draft?

Remember when Bush I attacked Iraq it was a hit and run he never entered Baghdad and didn’t stay in the region more than a year with a significantly large force. Bush I was in Iraq before Clinton (I?) cut military spending and reduced the army from 18 combat divisions to 10.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, according to Pentagon data as of Jan. 31, 2005, the exact figure was 1,048,884 U.S. soldiers have been deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. That was to maintain a level of 150,000 to 200,000, over 4 years. How many reports have there been about the army being on the verge of collapsing under the strain of multiple deployments. We would have needed over 2.5 million U.S. combat ready troops to patrol the streets of Iraq for those four years.

Remember Cheney knew what we would be in for...........(continued At)