Special army unit ready to be deployed on US soil just before Nov. elections

[fightingquaker13]

This is pure tinfoil "brigade" nonsense. Sadly, the numbers of these folks are at division level strenghth. Katrina and 911 taught us that having ready to go troops was a good idea. The 3,500 is enough to restore law and order in a post disaster city or set up a command and control point and erect tents for storm or earthquake refugees.
Beyond that, its useless. Look at Iraq. How many thousands did it take to shut down violence in Faluja or Nassariaya? And there the insurgents were just going through the motions. They just didn't like armed forieners on Iraqi soil and were scared of the majority Shiites they'd oppressed. No way in hell we need to worry about one brigade imposing tyranny on the US, even if the soldiers were willing to fire on their own. Freedom in this country won't end with a bang, but with a whimper. We will give the governent lawful authority based on fear and be glad they took it from us. The battle is not one of guns, but ideas, and we must engage on this front.  Anything else is macho posturing. To paraphrsase Lincoln, we won't die at the hand of of foriegn foe, but rather at our own hands. If the US falls, it won't be murder, but suicide.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

FQ, the number given in the Article wasn't 3500. It was 80,000, not counting air power that is more than double the number of troops who took Iraq..
Otherwise I pretty much agree with you for the 3rd time in one day.

Glad I bought Lotto tickets today 

[Solus]

I wondered about that 80k number.

It appeared they were talking about a part of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Inf. Div?

When I was on active duty, a Division was 30k max unclassified but closer to 20k actual and classified.

Have these numbers changed so much that a Brigade, one third of a division, now has 80k troops?