Don, that number actually translates to 435,000 troops -- 145,000 to be rotated home; 145,000 there as occupation force, and another 145,000 to replace them when it's their turn to come home. (And so on for years?)

Toadfrog, reports are that troop morale is at an all-time low, and bound to get worse.

Where are all these soldiers going to come from? It's relatively painless to volunteer for service in peacetime, but I'd imagine enlistment will go way down (if it isn't already) once the kids figure out what sort of hell awaits them.

Amos, I guess we can hope... and work to educate them.

I wonder what our resident ostrich, DougR, would say to the Resident's lies now being exposed? He was so willing at the time to give Bush the benefit of the doubt...

Cheers,
Michael