Ya mean we don't have this many soldiers?
831973
with all the facts emerging from the lies ......... and chaos emerging from stability ......... how can neocon still support a war without a valid reason? a stupid war that cost 2865 American soldiers and 150000 civilians to lost their lives.\n\nthere would be no need for the draft if all the bush lover volunteer themselves and their children to go FIGHT IN IRAQ
785255
If the question is how many troops are there in Iraq? The answer would be that there are currently about 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq. If you are asking about the American military then the answer is, there are about 2,500,000 people serving in the Armed Forces in one capacity or another, not counting civilians working for the military services or military contractors supplying the services.
785831
I saw on CNN last night that to be as effective as we were in world war 2 we would have to increase our military to over 400,000 troops. that would be 14 soldiers for every thousand Iraqis' that would mean a large scale draft and many many opinions support that idea. our allies seem to be going out the backdoor and practically the whole world thinks we should too. there's no way to leave this war and save face unless we win and the only way to win is a draft and I don't support a draft. many others don't either. I say start now pulling them out slowly. maybe some of them could come home for Christmas
235443
The problem is that battles are no longer restricted to battlefields.\nIt gets problematic when the enemy hides amongst the population.
940914
Maybe there should be an draft just so the same people aren't constantly deploying and redeploying?  I don't think it necessarily means that the US has plans to go into other countries, although, I am sure that they need to at this point.
106620
We aren't that hard to find.
1041623
Yeah and less of them
625082
More soldiers or better trained soldiers
85427
Not as many as we lost in the war.
584393
No, there are tons of them.\nLiterally.
798561
1st off less is more, I'm not sure if YOU understand what your question was,  and to quote you "Currently, there are more than enough people enlisting in the armed forces nationwide to sustain our military needs." where did you get your information? If we stay in middle of this civil war, we will not have enough to protect what we need to protect .I think you are afraid of being drafted.
361712
I don't think any were.  That's what the military is for.
138622
I counted at least 10 last night.  They come here to train because their country may not have the nessesary equipment to do so.
713463
No. They will be a force to be reckoned with. Plus, even if they are "dumb", or make bad judgements ... their numbers are many - so there would be an almost endless supply of replacements.
396816
Last I heard there were 20,000,000 (20 million) illegals in the United States.  We never sent that many troops anywhere in all history to invade a county.  Therefore, it must be an invasion.
713146
Most likely.\n\nI think everyone on earth except Rumsfeld thought we needed more troops.\n\nI was watching a documentary about the Amazon Jungle and one of the little rain forest guys said, " Ca kei dujk fi nuct Rum" The translator said he wants to know why Rumsfeld sent such a small Army.\n\n\nGo big Red Go
899638
We had something along those lines when Selective Service was geared up for Vietnam.  There were too many people, however, so a lottery was established.  Consider the numbers for the US, between ages of 15-64 there are 100 million males, narrowing that by the Census Bureau, there are about 21 million Americans between 20-24, of which there are just shy of 11 million males.\n\nThat's one awful big army.  Sorry, but we don't need it and the rest of the world wouldn't stand for it.  Thanks for thinking though, because the military service during WWI and WWII was one of the great standardizing forces in American education and culture at the time.