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Originally Posted by Parihaka
I thought staying there was the whole point, wasn't it? Not like actually engaged in combat in Baghdad, but having a decent standing army of about 80,000 constantly training in the deserts of Iraq?
You know, to keep a lid on the area and make the Iranians nervous?
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For this there was no point to start over all that activity with Democracy/nation building.... Much easier was to foce Iraq have a US base just like Cuba has to keep Guantanamo.... A limited millitary operation would have been more than enough!!!