[Happy2BMe]

I was a bit surprised to find it there also.

But we are going to have to wake up and smell the coffee on what it is going to take to raise up enough standing Iraiq forces (reliable ones - ones that won't cut our throats at night when we go to sleep).

I predict we'll have large forces on the ground in Iraq for a minimimum of ten years.

[Betaille]

"I predict we'll have large forces on the ground in Iraq for a minimimum of ten years."
Well we'll be stationed there with military bases because it is advantageous to us. We wont be doing day to day security in Iraq like we are now though.
Remember when we invaded Iraq and the mainstream media(including left-wing Hackworth) was insisting that Rumsfeld's war plan had failed? We took Baghdad within that week. You have to keep in mind that these media-types are thoroughly anti-american. Almost as bad as Al Jazeera in some ways.

[okie01]

"I predict we'll have large forces on the ground in Iraq for a minimimum of ten years."

Of course. That's been clear from the outset.

A chief purpose of Iraq all along has been to secure a base in the Middle East from which we could threaten (and attack) any vermin that raised their head above the horizon.

Saudi Arabia was unsatisfactory for that purpose -- politically and militarily -- so we moved to Iraq.

We'll be in Iraq until the WOT is over. And that could be ten years...

[FreedomPoster]

That's ~5 decades less than we did in Germany and Japan. 3 less than Korea. And still counting on all three locales.