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Originally Posted by shakran
And back to the original question, this "democracy comes to iraq" garbage is pure crap. They've had "democracy" for all of 2 weeks now, and it's not working real well considering there's well over 15,000 insurgents in the country, and only a tiny fraction of those are non-iraqi. In other words, there's a whole shitload of Iraqis who aren't going to take this democracy thing lying down.
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This is the one thing I'm going to call you on. Up until now, all the figures I have been using put the insurgency at 200,000-250,000. Iraq is a country of 25+ million people, so even those inflated numbers, in light of the new ones putting the numbers closer to 20,000, only equated to one percent of the population of Iraq. The numbers you are using, the new numbers, the "whole shitload" of insurgents...all 15,000 of them, equates to .08% of all Iraqi's.
Don't you see something a little misleading about this huge and glorious insurgency? Hell I didn't even think the thing was even remotely legitmate when the numbers said 1% of the population. Boohoo some ex-baathists and religious nutjobs don't want democracy, that really represents the whole 25 million of Iraq.
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