thinkprogress.org— When support troops are included, the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase from 162,000 now to more than 200,000 — the most ever — by the end of the year.
May 22, 2007View in Crawl 4
If you wanna get technical, this would be the 3rd or 4th surge.Lets see... 3 US aircraft carriers in the area, 1 on the way to "relieve" one of them, a sharp increase in combat forces.... what could they possibly be planning? Hmmmm....
And so we see the pieces falling into place on the chessboard. For a quick grab of the Kuzehstan region of Iran (yes the one with the oil) they will perhaps only need 100,000 troops, and with 2 carriers there, and at least 2 more within a week's sail, lots of air bases throughout the entire region - Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Oman, Qatar, etc etc, and all that long range air power which can come in from Europe, Diego Garcia and even from the US mainland, well now we can see that perhaps there will be plenty of troops around to conduct another war, providing they do not intend to invade all of Iran and only steal the oil, well then they will have the equipment in by year end.
gardnert1May 22, 2007
If you wanna get technical, this would be the 3rd or 4th surge.Lets see... 3 US aircraft carriers in the area, 1 on the way to "relieve" one of them, a sharp increase in combat forces.... what could they possibly be planning? Hmmmm....
biggs9May 23, 2007
And so we see the pieces falling into place on the chessboard. For a quick grab of the Kuzehstan region of Iran (yes the one with the oil) they will perhaps only need 100,000 troops, and with 2 carriers there, and at least 2 more within a week's sail, lots of air bases throughout the entire region - Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Oman, Qatar, etc etc, and all that long range air power which can come in from Europe, Diego Garcia and even from the US mainland, well now we can see that perhaps there will be plenty of troops around to conduct another war, providing they do not intend to invade all of Iran and only steal the oil, well then they will have the equipment in by year end.