Ack! Iraq part II

Why we are screwed in mathamatical terms:

26 million Iraqis

80% like us
20% hate us

Of the 20% that hate us 90% are too affraid to do anything but hate us.

That leaves 520,000 people who hate us enough to be actively involved with wanting us gone. That is a pretty sizable force. Furthermore this 520,000 man force is spread proportionally accrocc Iraq, with many more in the cities than in the countryside.

We on the countrary have a measily 140,000 troops. The best there have ever been, but far too few to secure the nation of Iraq. Many like to compare occupied Germany that never suffered such an insurgency with Iraq. The reasons for the total peace in Germany is made clear by the following statistics:

"Allied forces in Western Europe consisted of 4 ½ million men, including 9 armies (5 of them American--one of which, the Fifteenth, saw action only at the last), 23 corps, 91 divisions (61 of them American), 6 tactical air commands (4 American), and 2 strategic air forces (1 American). The Allies had 28,000 combat aircraft, of which 14,845 were American, and they had brought into Western Europe more than 970,000 vehicles and 18 million tons of supplies. At the same time they were achieving final victory in Italy with 18 divisions (7 of them American)."

There is NO credible comparrison to the situation in under-occupied Iraq. The US command made a fatal error in misjudging the numbers required to subdue Iraq. This error has continued to this day. The situation is strategically hopeless unless conscription starts in the US. Short of that there is no reason to keep US combat forces in Iraq one day longer. There is simply no way that the small force we have can do the job, no matter how honorable and full of valor they are.