[wrench]

The Surge was 10,000. And that took 6 months

[central_va]

Desert Shield, which precluded Desert Storm, involved moving almost half a million men and sustenance to Saudi Arabia. I know I participated in that. You are just wrong.

US troops represented 73% of the coalition's 956,600 troops in Iraq.[92]

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[Ancesthntr]

Desert Storm was the operation to attack Iraq, and it commenced on 1/15/1991 (it was preceded by Desert Shield, which was defensive in nature). There were approximately 700,000 US troops involved, and close to 1 million including our allies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

The “Surge” was in Iraq, commencing in late 2007. It involved about 20,000 troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007

You are confusing operations. Oh, and the 500,000 troops of Desert Storm took about 5 months to get into place (from late August until the operation commenced).

In any case, Homobama’s deployment of roughly 3,000 troops will do nothing. There isn’t going to be a conflict between us and the Russians - not when Putin knows that in 7 days, 1 hour and 15 or so minutes, a rational actor is going to be in charge of the US.