Reply #16: The problem with this is in order to do Iran right, you have to have

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the draft in place and active for about 8 months before you put the first boot on the ground. Otherwise the vast majority of the first wave will get wiped out, and the rest of them picked off until reinforcements trickle in.

So if this is right, Bush is sacrificing about 50,000 troops to get the war started and the draft activated to finish it. He would be removed from power before that happened, one way or another.