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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
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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Well then you should have picked something else to call me on. The numbers I used are a PENTAGON estimate. The Pentagon, remember, is run by Rumsfeld, who's such a font of misinformation about this situation that nothing he says can be trusted. In all likelihood, the "inflated" numbers are probably closer to the truth.
However, as others have pointed out, only a fool would fail to be concerned about 15,000 insurgents running around a country armed to the teeth and willing to kill anyone to get their point across.
I remind you that the U.S. and its allies FAR outnumbered the enemy in Vietnam (in 1967 there were 280,000 viet cong, and 1,174,000 allies), and we still got our asses kicked.