"Lets do it! Let's Bomb Iran"

(Satire) ...If there is near unanimity in the Congress to go to war with Iran I say lets go. Lets do it!  They are the duly elected representatives of the people of the United States and they have determined that war with Iran is in the best interests of the country.  We should initiate hostilities as soon as practicable.

Here are some parameters to consider for our war:

1. Iran is 1.6 million square kilometers and has approximately 80 million inhabitants (77-78 million plus).

2. That makes Iran four times the area of Iraq and three times the

    population of Iraq.

3. The Iraq War was completed very quickly, and very easily. But the

    occupation, i.e. the reduction of resistance lasted ten years and has

    produced a relatively weak state.

4.  In order to do things right this time, we need sufficient ground

    forces to secure a mountainous multiethnic country with more than two thousand years of national history. We may be welcomed as liberators but coalition forces ultimately met with armed resistance from numerous  groups many of whom practiced deadly suicide attacks.

5. We need a long term occupational force for Iran.  I think an effective occupation of 80 million people spread over 1.6 million square kilometers should require well over 1 million well trained troops for at least 5 years maybe 10 years if things go badly.

6. The only way we can provide this level of forces is through a return to the Draft. The Selective Service system needs to activated immediately. All military reserves needed to be recalled to active duty while we  begin the process of training millions of young male and female    draftees for service in Iran.  A five year occupation should require,    ballpark, 5 million draftees.  Of course, we have the manpower.    According to the CIA, the U.S. has 120 million males and females    between the ages of 18 and 49 who are fit for military service.

7. The direct financial cost of the war should be a multiple of the Iraq

    War which was 800 billion from 2003 through 2011.  The cost of

    deploying troops to Afghanistan averages about one million dollars per  troop.  If we plan on 1 million troops for five years that would mean   5 trillion in direct costs financed by the U.S. Treasury through    2016-2017 and then undetermined costs thereafter.

8. The economic benefits of this exercise in military Keynesian economics     should be huge. Unemployment should disappear.  War related    manufacturing should be a virtual renaissance for domestic industry.    The financing of the war will significantly increase the public debt, anathema to     Republicans, but they are spoilsports. They reject military Keynesianism, which worked wonders for Japan and Germany in the 1930s and 1940s as well as the United States and the Soviet Union.

9. No whining about casualties. The U.S. could sustain hundreds of    thousands or more total casualties, including deaths from combat,    disabling wounds, and huge numbers of psychiatric losses related to    combat and the effect of concussive injuries to the brain.