ACCEPTABLE LOSSES: 130,000 TROOPS EXPOSED TO DU

It finally occurred to me, why the low number of troops, 130,000, was planned for the post Saddam Hussein occupied Iraq.  Clearly, anyone with even a hint of life experience, much less military-nation invading-re-construction knowledge, would have thought this low number of forces was insane.  

Economic efficiency, political brownie points, or simple stupidity didn’t explain the poor planning for post invasion Iraq, relative to the responsibilities of any occupying nation under the international and moral laws of maintaining safe borders, utilities, health care, schools, etc, for the occupied people.  

Then it hit me while reading the information about Depleted Uranium.   I remembered reading about the Dept of Defense’s plans for Post Nuclear Invasion of any country, and who the troops be and how would they be able to tolerate the radiation.   The plan called for battle hardened troops, who would have the advantage over newly radiation exposed troops, because they would have been exposed, over time, and able to build physical tolerance, not immunity, but tolerance to the fatigue of slow onset radiation poisoning.  

And since these battle-hardened troops had already been exposed, it made sense that the fewer troops to be exposed, the better.   Why contaminate the whole US military capacity?  

Additionally, President GW Bush made it clear from the outset, that he wanted recruiters to invite the “illegal” to join, promising them full citizenships upon their successful completions of duty.  Of course, most of those individuals have not made it home to the US, nor to South of the border, the same way they left to go fight for the US.   Nor do they get a coffin draped in a flag, which is another reason why GW Bush did not want cameras shooting the arrival of the remains of the dead troops, too many coffins without flags would spark too many questions.  

Don’t expend all the resources.  In this case, the troops in the current DU battle theatres are considered a tolerable loss.   Even if they walk off those carriers, with all limbs intact, they are walking dead.