The Partitioning of Iraq enters last Phase,

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Speaking from a soldiers perspective, the war on Iraq was costly but it is a risk that almost every US soldier is willing to take for his or her country. Will we invade Iran? according to my Colonel it is a strog possibility. According to him we will invade Iran within the next four years, depending who is sitting in office. But we will invade Iran almost the same way that we invaded Iraq. We will bomb key targets that will cripple their military, and then we will rely on a massive land invasion sweeping in from the west. Yes, Iran has an efficient airoforce, but so did Iraq. Yet NO aircraft were used against the US military during our invasion.

A US soldier's life is work 400 thousand dollars. A small price paid to our families if we ultimately lose ours lives while in the service of our great nation. But you will not find many soldiers who mind this cost. Yes, we spend a lot of money on training the Iraqi army, but we are not paying the militias not to attack us for the simple purpose that this action would not work. They would take our money and attack us anyway. A prime example is Ossama Bin Laden. We paid him to organize an army in Afghanistan in order to liberate his country for the Russians. In return he attacked us, using the money that we gave him to finance his terror.

 

Freddy has already pointed out the inaccuracies of the above post, but I'd like to touch on other soldier's views.

 

Two US marines that I have spoken with say that the problem lies in Afghanistan, not Iraq. One even spoke of crossing into Pakistan in search of rebels from Afghanistan. This was months ago...

 

Iraq is unstable, Iran...not so much.

 

If the US can occupy (and somewhat stabilize) Iraq, then, potentially, we could see a shift in mideast power. In the absence of this, it makes sense to rethink the strategy, imho.