thanks for the information on Iraq that I did not know. But why didn’t we send half a million men in so we could secure the borders and secure the cities. 250000 man wasn’t enough. Also when you go in under the pretext of rescuing people it’s hard to turn around and kill them so easily when you occupy. we should have what soldiers and police keep their jobs. Oh well. Even if Obama had left ten thousand troops none of this mess would have happened in the past 5 years. But there’s no use looking back.
We didn’t send in half a million men, because we didn’t have half a million men. We had already allowed our military to be decimated, and it has been more-so since.
By the time Obama became president, the situation was well in hand. He abandoned it, and allow Iraq to be over-run by our enemies.
If the war had been run perfectly, we would have lost far fewer men, and had far fewer injuries. Hindsight is always 20/20. It’s too bad Bush didn’t adjust his plan earlier, but he did and things turned out quite good actually. And then Obama...
One of Bush’s biggest mistakes was not drawing a line in the sand on Iran. He allow it to train, arm, and send in terrorists to Iraq and did very little about it.