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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Go in heavy to what end? We don't have enough troops there to properly occupy the area, even if our political leadership was willing to take the heat for the casualties that would result. We cannot occupy Iraq with the troops we have there, and the Iraqi forces cannot take up the slack, so we're stuck letting part of the country be controlled by insurgents.
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If we go in heavy and kill all the insurgents, then we don't need to occupy, see 'cuz they will all be dead.