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I'm not sure why you think the Democrats will take the blame for troop deployments. The President is the Commander in Chief, and he makes the ultimate decision on troop levels. He listens to his generals and then makes the decision. Congress has little to do with it and never has. Granted, they can try to cut funding, but there are ways around that. After Vietnam, it's become virtually impossible for Congress to control the military in any effective way.
I don't think that ANYONE (in power anyway) is talking about increasing the boots on the ground to 300,000, let along 1,000,000. The German comparision isn't apples-to-apples since they had just finished a protracted 7 year war that left German production capacity at virtually zero and munitions on hand not much above that. Iraq today is much closer to the Korea of the 50's or Vietnam of the 60's which still had working infrastructure although it was damaged, severely in some cases.
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