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Problem is that, if my infos are correct, you have about 490000 soldiers and 362000 are/were deployed in 120 different countries (The Economist July, 26th '03). And you're right. Why does America still need to have a few thousand soldiers in Germany? The war is over for 60 years. Their are still american soldiers in Japan and about 60000 or so in South Corea. Just imagine that in every country America fought a war and was victorious they need to have military bases for 60 years...
An now just try to send someone to Iraq who wasn't home for two years or so. Should be funny when soldiers stop working to protest against being seperated from their family for 2 years or more. You don't have any professional soldiers left to make a rotation.
I think the argument about fighting a war for oil is not completly correct. If Bush only wanted Iraq's oil, he'd have simply needed to stop UN-Embargo against Iraq. So you cannot say that this war was only for oil!
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