Invade Iraq
>advance a few km over the border
>US launches airborne drop into Baghdad Airport that seems them all massacred/scattered
>Suddenly tons of images of panicked US soldiers fleeing, being captured, ambushed and annihilated. The prisoners look scared and malnourished.
>Convoy after convoy of burning US vehicles
>Thousands of vehicles being abandoned by fleeing US troops. Towed away by Iraqi farmers with tractors
>3 months into war, US is still barely over the border and is still besieging Basra.
>Bush announces this was all actually a feint, they never wanted Iraq. Their real objective was Umm Qasr (pic related)
>3 more months
>Using human wave tactics and trench warfare that has seen obscene losses on both sides, US has captured only 160 square km of territory
>Umm Qasr still hasn't fallen
>Iraqis launch new offensive
>US lines break, US troops flee in all directions
>What meager gains the US has managed after 200 days and 50,000 KIA being rapidly reversed in days
>US continues to claim they're winning
I hope that a president Ron Paul would do a air drop and just leave them there without support then abolish a standing army.
You forgot the part where a carrier gets sunk in the Persian Gulf, multiple airbases in Saudi Arabia get wiped, Canada applies to ally with China, and Kurds are getting press ganged into serving at the front.
>the USS Gerald Ford made it back to port on her own power
>the Mystic of Baghdad is fake propaganda
>M1A1s are decades out of date
>there is no panic in Basra
>Iraq is only doing well because russia supports them
>USAF isn't operational because US is holding back but now it's time for gloves off
>we don't need to rapidly advance, even if this take 10 years it will still be worth it.
>iraq's infrastructure is fricked forever, we still win even if we don't take it over
>>the Mystic of Baghdad is fake propaganda
The Djinn. Come on this was simple
frick, you're absolutely right
>Major General David Petraeus KIA
>Major General JIm Mattis KIA
>Major General Raymond Odierno KIA
My homie Stormin Norman is still alive tho right
Couldn't kill him for political reasons since he was born in Iran
Well this wouldn't have been such a bad outcome. Petraeus ironically had the most integrity of them.
>General Tommy Franks: POW
He died of old age years back
I personally like the Mexico analogy more.
i am glad my country is a joke in other ways
They aren't joking about US or Iraq.
still lost to goat frickers and rice farmers lmao
And we'd do it again.
Just to show everyone we could.
>invasion so poorly planned that US troops are wearing WOODLAND camouflage into battle
>it turns into a complete shitshow
Who would've figured?
There were enough woodland BDI's, what they didn't have enough of was woodland MOPP suits since MOPP's are significantly more expensive and you only make them for where you think you will need them (europe).
Fedayeen troops endure brutal siege for months armed with surplus sterling smgs
The funny thing is that this would still be less embarrassing than what is happening to the Russians right now because Iraq wasn't on our fricking border.
This
Better comparison would be Mexico and getting btfo for 6 months at Monterrey
That, and Iraq had thousands of tanks and a decent anti-aircraft system. I think we often underestimate how great of a feat it was to get those initial aircraft in and start demolishing their radar sites.
Mexico or Canada would be a better comparison because they're our neighbors and aren't equipped to fight the us in any way.
How long was Iraq deemed a no fly zone before the invasion?
>It's not fair if you prepare correctly for battle !
>You have to charge blindly so it's more glorious if you succeed !
>If
In 1991 it was six weeks of air strikes.
2003 US raped their air force before, but there was no preparatory bombardment.
The noflyzone over Iraq was established from 1991 up unti the day of the invasion in 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones_conflict
So the US had the advantage of having already done SEAD/DEAD back in Desert Storm and kept It that way until Iraqi Freedom started
Thank you for doing the homework I was too lazy to do
We have to take out those Iraqi biolabs, they're putting germs on the birds that will migrate and kill all the white men
Its sponsored by the Chinese so you know its for realsies!
yeah we gotta find and destroy those Iraqi WMDs
>US launches airborne drop
Damn I wish they would do that in the next war. can you imagine the amount of high power, precision ballsack stomping fire support those guys would get. would make the Ia Drang valley B-52 grid square removal service look like a fire cracker in comparison
>saudi citizens sabotage military and logistic support