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Unacceptable Losses, Part 2

By grrlscientist on November 5, 2006.

Speaking of unacceptable losses, this cited story (below the fold) describes how Bush and his squadron of flying monkeys blatantly betrayed our nation and our military by not sending enough troops to Iraq to do the job properly. Further, this cited story continues on to reveal that there was little chance that a replacement government could be successful in Iraq, especially if it is perceived by the Iraqi peoples as weak, a puppet, or out-of-step with prevailing regional governments.

The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.

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"The conventional wisdom is the U.S. mistake in Iraq was not enough troops," said Thomas Blanton, director of George Washington University's National Security Archive, an independent research institute and library. "But the Desert Crossing war game in 1999 suggests we would have ended up with a failed state even with 400,000 troops on the ground."

There are currently about 144,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, down from a peak of about 160,000 in January.

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