That would wipe out the population of Iraq.
Not completely. The real lessons of Nam have never been completely learned. At least not by the public at large. The people in charge of the pentagon appear to understand them for the most part, thank God.
The most major lesson of Nam is that you cannot draft the boy next door and try to tell him that it is somehow or other his patriotic duty to risk death or maiming in a political game which congress does not even have the decency to declare to be a war.
Not that president's don't have to have the ability to play games at times, but you don't play games with hundreds of thousands of draftees and large sums of treasure; you play games with a handful of soldiers of fortune and petty cash. Ronald Reagan understood this perfectly and his presidency will go into the books as a resounding success. LBJ and Nixon did not comprehend this, and their presidencies will always be viewed as abysmal failures.
The Vietnam war all but destroyed the US military as an institution. The academies went for ten years taking the bottom of the barrel because that was all they could get, and the enlisted ranks became one gigantic drug problem. The most remarkable thing in the whole picture is that Reaean was able to bring it back as quickly as he did.