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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: BEEF JERKEY who wrote (25853)5/26/2004 8:27:53 PM
From: Wayners of 81568
 
Yep. I warned from the beginning... not enough troops. The U.S. Army only had 10 Active divisions thanks to the end of the cold war peace dividend. Some wanted only 8 divisions! Thats only 10,000 troops/real operators per division! The logistics tail is about 7 times as big. But troops on the ground, active and reserve is only 134,000! Going in the Pentagon KNEW that the Iraqis were allowed by law to own automatic weapons and RPGs (anti-armor shaped charge descendant of panzerfaust). Thats SCARY for an invading force. The Soviets invaded Berlin against the Volksturm (people's army..regular civilians with automatic weapans and panzerfausts..hundreds of thousands of them) and managed to KILL 100,000 Soviets in taking the city. Think about that. Thats the kind of Risk Rumsfeld decided to take knowing that he had air superiority. But since you can't indescrimately bomb civilian populations anymore like you could in WWII...what an unbelievable risk to take!
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