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I heard a news report last night that there were an estimated
500 foreign fighters and about 1000 combatants following
al Zarqawi. If you minimize the signifigance of a domestic
Iraqi insurgency of about 15000, how do you react to
statements from Bush and his supporters that "we will
fight them there so we won't have to fight them here?"
Following your logic, isn't it ludicrous to commit 150,000 troops,
an equivalent to almost one third of your entire active duty
ground force, and try to justify it with the "flypaper" argument?
When a force is "decimated", a minimum of 10 percent of
it's total number is killed or seriously wounded. With an
average force total of less than 150,000 troops in Iraq since
March, 2003, and casulaties of more than 12,000, isn't fair to
say that the Iraqi insurgency has succeeded in decimating
our forces? You are trying to downplay a catastrophe, but
the numbers contradict your assertions.
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