Reply #1: It would be unconscionable to destabilize Iraq, erase the 'police' &

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'armed forces' ... who let's face it... needed to be erased. And then to not let a big enough replacement force evolve. The USA has no choice.

They have to wait until the Iraqi forces get big enough. The UN and Canada (who didn't join the invasion) are there to try and help out.

Those people are owed some stability. For sure the insurgents will be 'fixed' as soon as the American Army leaves the cities. But you cannot let a civil war break out. Money will come from all over the middle east to fund the Sunnis (since everyone else in the middle east is Sunni except for Iraqis). You have to let the army be big enough to keep order. And then public opinion will take care of the insurgents after the Americans have left. But you need another 50 thousand troops at least. Minimum..200, 000 troops I would say.