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Let me also point out the obvious. 150,000 troops for 4 years is far cheaper [in terms of tax payer dollars] to do than 300,000 for 2 years or 400,000 for a year and 1/2 [think a bit about the command and control and more importantly the logistics]. And if we lacked intelligence, armor, and such things as vehicles for 150,000 troops if you had have 400,000 active troops it would have been far worse as a problem.
And also let's not forget the obvious, at the moment there are well over 400,000 security forces in Iraq- but only a small portion are American- most are Iraqi [who can speak the language easily and don't absolutely need to be equiped like the alien Predator- with air fire support:) to do the vast amount of grunt work that needs to be done.]

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