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Originally Posted by Militarythinker
...........But all that aside, how would you have invaded Iraq Snowleopard? I would rather this thread stay on a more military topic than stray to a political discussion. I am a much bigger fan of military strategy and know much more about it. I'm not as sound in my Iraq political history and can't contribute/converse as much about it.
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I wouldn't.
And like a similar question in this area, I would have been fired for such a decision. That similar question? If I was in charge of the prison (had I stayed in, +12-13 years from my initial military police tour, it would have been a plausibility) and had been given any order to treat prisoners other than the rules of war, I would have either refused to obey or incompently obeyed ...... and I would be out of the service.
Back to the point. I wouldn't invade the country, it is stragetically wrong. It's wrong because it reinforces the hate idealogy against us, it focuses the majority of our forces and locks them down when we need them to be mobile, and I believe they can be used elsewhere in better ways, such as training counter terrorism forces in countries that are stable, stabilizing countries, than trying to keep a country from going under.
We're suppose to be the good guys. That means we go to war, such as we are in now, when we need to, not because it is our only trick in the bag. We could have done a lot better in unifying the world against terrorism with limited military/police action in areas than just being bogged down in one country.
I wouldn't have attacked them.
However, since the question is asked: would have beefed up the other countries around Iraq, that were friendlier to us, and by keeping him as the common bad guy in the region, pushed the table for the region to remove him as themselves, not by an outsider.
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