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Originally Posted by fluffygrrl
Iran is a country thrice the size and x5 the strenght of the country that already handed the proud us military its ass.
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What the fuck kind of crack are you smoking?
The United States - which at that moment had already deployed troops to Afghanistan - Kicked in the door to Iraq, drove straight into Bagdad (Remember that idiot on TV saying "There are no US tanks in Bagdad"?), overthrew it's government, and has been occupying the country since. The US went so quickly and with such force that the Iraqi military was either destroyed from a distance, or the Iraqi military packed up, went home, and hid.
Oh, and by the way, this was the second time we've done this.
How the fuck did Iraq hand us our ass?
Nearly two hundred thousand US troops invaded a country, and over five years later we've lost less than five thousand lives. While this sounds like a horrible number, you need to keep in mind that this is over a period of five years, and a large percentage of this number was from terrorist attacks and IEDs - not combat. I should also point out that in past wars we lost more than five thousand US lives in a single battle, no less over a five year period.
I just finished reading a book called "Marines in the garden of Eden". It's about a battle that took place in a town in Iraq called An Nasiriyah. The US Marines rolled through their town with such force that it was amazing.
Yeah, I'm sorry, the US didn't get their "asses handed to them". We invaded, over-ran, and destroyed their military, overthrew what little was left of their government, and forced it's leader to hide in a hole for a year. And we are still there.
I think the Iraqi military was a joke.
And if Iran thinks it's going to be any different, well, they haven't been paying attention.