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**AndyScouchek** · 10-18-2008, 09:56 PM

You do realize the majority of troops are in Iraq? We reduced our troop levels severely in Afghanistan due to GB wanted to go to Iraq.

It still mentions nothing of full scale war or anything...it only mentions that one general wants to put more troops back in the area. The manpower is there, they just aren't sending it and your article pretty much says the same.

Well here is the the problem:

Iraq may have calmed down for the moment, but at anytime the Shia's can rise up and cause us huge issues. Just today, 10's of thousands of Shia's under the Mehdi army marched on Baghdad protesting the US occupation and referendums.

Worst of all, we now may have to go into talks with the Taliban because we cant win in Afghanistan.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...h-Taliban.html

Even Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith said that there must be a compromise with the Taliban. "The departing commander of British forces in Afghanistan says he believes the Taliban will never be defeated. "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4887927.ece

Now, with the country of IRAN being situated between Iraq to the west and Afghanistan to the East our soldiers would be directly in harms way. You would have soldiers from IRAN flooding Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be a strategic nightmare for the US.

If it was the US vs IRAN alone it wouldn't be as big of an issue, But the US against the entire middle east would be a nightmare.

10-18-2008, 09:56 PM	#19
AndyScouchek Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	You do realize the majority of troops are in Iraq? We reduced our troop levels severely in Afghanistan due to GB wanted to go to Iraq. It still mentions nothing of full scale war or anything...it only mentions that one general wants to put more troops back in the area. The manpower is there, they just aren't sending it and your article pretty much says the same. Well here is the the problem: Iraq may have calmed down for the moment, but at anytime the Shia's can rise up and cause us huge issues. Just today, 10's of thousands of Shia's under the Mehdi army marched on Baghdad protesting the US occupation and referendums. Worst of all, we now may have to go into talks with the Taliban because we cant win in Afghanistan. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...h-Taliban.html Even Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith said that there must be a compromise with the Taliban. "The departing commander of British forces in Afghanistan says he believes the Taliban will never be defeated. " http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4887927.ece Now, with the country of IRAN being situated between Iraq to the west and Afghanistan to the East our soldiers would be directly in harms way. You would have soldiers from IRAN flooding Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be a strategic nightmare for the US. If it was the US vs IRAN alone it wouldn't be as big of an issue, But the US against the entire middle east would be a nightmare.
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