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To: RMF who wrote (922719)	2/23/2016 1:36:08 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570342

>> We had a hard time controlling the Sunni Militias when we had 400,000 troops in Iraq. I don't think we ever had anywhere near 400,000. The peak, at the time of the surge, was around 160K. I understand your point, but before we abandoned Iraq we had about 40K there; we could have cut that in half and still maintained immediate control, and perhaps eventually drawn it down a bit more. It was incompetent the way we walked out of there. People can complain about how we got in but the real scandal is in how we left and history will, imo, see the exit as the bigger mistake. It saddened me to see the precipitous withdrawal because it such an obvious mistake. At the same time, I was tired of it just like everyone else was. To be clear, ISIS could have been stopped much later had the president not been asleep at the switch. We should have been in there solving the problem before it grew to the mess it is now.