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Originally Posted by Cadet Seaman I have read some of the replies to this thread, but with some I must disagree. I agree with silent driller, We took Germany in 1945 and we had an Armor unit there until 85', same with Korea. |
Oh, it's a given that we will ALWAYS have some forces in Iraq. There are 2 large and 2 medium sized airbases that will be US property for the rest of our lives much like Guantanamo even if the whole country goes to ****. Iraq is going to be where we are going to stage a lot of supplies so that if we can be ready if we need to fight any of the nations boardering Iraq. Now we don't have to have a friendly country in the region where we can stage our troops, we've already got the infustrucute to deploy our forces in the region.
What this thread is discussing is when we will have almost all the troops back. We'll probobly always have like 5,000 soldiers in Iraq but that's A LOT smaller than 130,000. And due to the strategic situation there will be a gradual withdrawal; there will never be a big 100,000 soldier ticker tape parade where all our boys come home at once.