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I agree about Iraq and Afghanistan. Vietnam was a fair size, 600,000 troops plus Air and Naval support. Of course the draft was needed. I do agree that a real war with Iran would be much bigger. IMO the draft would be needed. I don't see 2 million Trump supporters bet 18-35 wanting to die for Iranian oil.

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Tom Cotton really spelled it out for everyone.

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If memory serves the US did a series of war games back in the 90's about a war with Iran. The results of the first one where the officers taking the side of Iran let out all the stops were pretty awful, oh the US 'won' in the end but at a very high cost (at least one Aircraft carrier sunk along with other ships and oil poduction trade in the middle east in ruins - missiles sucide bombings. terror attacks all across the middle east and even in the US. The sinking of the ships in the Hormuz was part of the plan again if memory serves. Again if i remember rightly the re-did the games limiting what Iran could do but even this one showed it was a tough go.

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Ku ku kachu!

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Because Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan aren't enough

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Ha ha, Iran has been around for 2500+ years, good luck to Bibi on "wiping it off the map". Even people who hate and despise the theocratic government of Iran will rally around it if Bibi goes full génocidaire.

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Surely you know it's the other way around? Israel is the US's watchdog in the Middle East? You have to be careful suggesting a tiny Middle Eastern colonial country somehow rules the world's dominant superpower, because that's how anti-Semitic ideas get normalised on the Left.

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And that right there is why he needs us to fight for him. Assuming nukes are lobbed around and the entire world ends, he cannot invade Iran. His borders will be exposed, and even Iran's enemies and adversaries will not stand for it.

We on the other hand could invade Iran and win. It would be a hard fight to be sure but we could do it. We could probably do it even if we had to go it alone and others in the region piled in against us. And Israel's border would be secured internally.

He needs us to do this if it's going to get done. That is why he is constantly throwing meat to the Evangelicals. He is playing their End Times bullshit to get the way he wants.

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Well, not when you're actively trying to bring about Armageddon.

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And don't all Iranian citizens have to serve in the military? We have no way to compete with their numbers with a volunteer army, not to mention the fact that the pResident ran on a campaign of getting out of the Middle East. I just can't with these people.

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Has, had, Iraq, Iran, potato, potatoe...

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Plus mean piggy eyes.

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and iraq had WMD, right????

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Go Golden Flashes!

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Fucking shit! I just got all the flowers strewn before me when we marched into Baghdad out of my house, and now you tell me we're going to do it all again?

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