<The sending of 120k more troops in 2 more armored divisions to the conflict is not a small reinforcement, but essentially a clear admission that current forces in the region are wholely inadequate to ASSURE a rapid victory.
You picked some careful wording there, thats good. The article quotes 130k so I don't know why you used 120k. . . but as for the 30k in the 4th ID, that was DEFINITLY to be sent in all along, I would wager other elements of armor werer to be sent as well, but I guess it was not publicized so I didn't hear of it. The 4th ID and elements of the 1st ID were supposed to come down simultaneously from the north. In fact their ships were waiting offshore of Turkey.
Instead we had to capture some land in northern Iraq and make that the staging area. Well, thank you very much 'friends'. We ought to let the kurds go ahead and make thier own state just to spite them.
-Justin
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