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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I agree. It would not be a walk in the park at all. Iran has more than twice the population. If 200k+ U.S. soldiers cannot control 30m Iraqis, then they have no hope of controling 60m+ Iranians. Not to mention, their miliary has not been hampered by continuous sanctions and airstrikes for 12 years. I also believe that their military is the most advanced in the Middle East (besides Israel of course). Their leader also seems more popular than Hussein did in Iraq. That means they might have more will to fight.
Israel has shown remarkable restraint in the past though, so unless they started taking high casualties, I think they would hunkerdown.
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It wouldn't take that many troops to win a war with Iran. The US and Britain would have no delusions of actually occupying Iran they would go in, bomb the poo out of the entire country's infrastructure turning it into an economic lightweight with no hope of recovery in the next 20 yrs, and then they would get the hell out of there and let the Ayatollah or whoever is left clean up the mess.... The big problem becomes the massive increase of terrorism all over the world thereafter...