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Originally Posted by skooter
i agree we need more troops in iraq.
that's one thing i've never understood:
why in 1990, when we were only driving iraq out of kuwait, did we send 500,000 troops,
but to defeat and occupy the entire country in 2003, we only sent 150,000.
always seemed backwards to me.
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Yeah, that would be my single biggest complaint concerning the operation of this current war. I would have sent 750,000 and scaled back if necessary as the needs of our troops changed. Surges are only ways to fix mistakes. I support them because I don't want to leave mistakes, but we could have avoided plenty.