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One of the biggest criticisms of the 2003 Iraq War was that we didn’t have the numbers required to pacify the entire country post-invasion, mainly due to Donald Rumsfeld stubbornly believing that we would need an extremely low number of troops since the Iraqi people would presumably love us for removing Saddam from power. Let’s say for the sake of this discussion that Rummy relents and agrees to the deployment of around 400,000 troops as reccomended by the Pentagon. How would the situation in Iraq look compared to OTL?
Note: This thread isn’t meant to justify the 2003 Iraq War. My main focus is to see whether the war would have progressed and how the American public would react.
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