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Show us which units were redeployed from Afghanistan to Iraq.
I'm not really interested in doing the research now, but I'm sure there were some.
But my more general point is that Iraq was a waste of time, money and manpower. That's what I and most Americans believe, and I'm not really interested in debating it further. I will say that there was too much of a focus in Iraq that distracted us from Afghanistan, and the manpower and financial resources that were used in Iraq could have been used in Afghanistan if we had fought one war at a time. That's why most generals talking now are saying the war effort in Afghanistan on really began in earnest in 2009, because that's when political will was refocused on Afghanistan, and when money and resources were devoted to building up the ANP and ANA in earnest.