Yeah, we'll use the newly formed 120th AA Division, the 12th Armored Division and the 212th Infantry Division and the 8th MEF...just for starters.
[Yeah, we'll use the newly formed 120th AA Division, the 12th Armored Division and the 212th Infantry Division and the 8th MEF...just for starters.]
The Iraqi Army is being given more and more responsibility, freeing up US forces for action in Iran. Rumsfeld will have been incompetent if he hasn't prepared a significant foreign and US force for the job. Whatever forces are now being arrayed, is a secret. No need to discuss possible secrets. No need to continue the bogus argument that we "are tied down" by the very regimes in Iran and Syria that are tying us down. No need to continue allowing the Iranian support of the insurgency and Syrian government via the billions in oil revenue they are still allowed to benefit from at our expense (and the expense of damaged Iraqi oil pipelines - why we don't damage Iranian pipelines for every Iraqi pipeline hit by the insurgency is beyond me).
The argument that our troops are tied down in Iraq is like saying that, if someone is pinning both your arms down on the floor and cutting your wrists, your only way out of the predicament is to loosen the grip of your tormentor on one of those arms...instead of heading him or kneeing him in the groin to escape and then finish him off.