Please compare this 'war' and timeframe with other major conflicts of the past 100 years. ... ___ Almu says it best -- the war on 'terror' is in Afghanistan not Iraq ~ we are starting to lose the war on 'terror' where it counts.
Let's go to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, February 2003, for information on anticipated timeframe: We don't talk about deployments in the specific, but we have brought a good many Guard and Reserve on active duty. Fortunately, a great many of them were volunteers. We have been able to have relatively few stop losses. There are some currently, particularly in the Army, but relatively few in the Navy and the Air Force. And it is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months. *** So I would see this buildup going up, lasting for a period, and the last choice is war, but if that is necessary, a period where that takes place and then a drawdown. And you would find people moving back out and some residual number staying there, with the -- undoubtedly the forces of many other nations.
amen! Did you read through the article? It took me a couple of hours to work though because I had to take breaks because of how mad it was making me.
What you say is largely in agreement, and I want to make clear that I do not have a "overly rosy" view of the shia. I realize there is good and bad within each religious grouping with multiple intentions. I simply want to point towards those that are willing to work together and suggest this is part of what will make "part 2" in the noble war effort an eventual completion...if part 2 is a complete success.
