Our Iraqi policy is doomed. Look at the numbers.

[Botany]

"The Dynamics of Death"
posted on One Thousand Reasons

"Cold raw numbers that should demonstrate to anybody with an open mind that Iraq can never be pacified with our current political and military tactics."

snip

"Iraq has a population of 26 million (CIA Factbook) 20 million of which want to see us dead and or gone. Right now in country we have about 130,000 troops, and of that number not all are combat troops. How in the world will 130,000 troops make 20,000,000 people who see us as invaders and murders do what they want them to do?"

http://www.thousandreasons.org/get_article.php?article_id=54

:patriot:

[Last Lemming]

1. Question: Do you know what you call 130K troops

in a sea of 26 Million people?

Answer: Hostages

[lyonn]

2. 'fraid you are right

only nobody seems to notice!

[Jacobin]

3. I love what the military calls their 'strategy' in IraqNam

"Force Protection"

i.e. they spend 90 percent of their time holed up in bunkers guarding each other from being killed.

It's like we sent troops into a hornets nest and the hornets are not throwing flowers.....they are stinging

[paparush]

5. I LOVED that Doonesbury Strip

Doones-"You mean, our guys' mission in Iraq is to try not to get killed?"

GI-"Correct"

Doones-"Can't they 'not get killed' here at home?"

GI-"No sir. Its more important that we not get killed in Iraq"



Or something along those lines...

[okieinpain]

7. well I wouldn't say 20 million, I would say it's more like 10 give or

take a few million. so now the soldiers are only totally fucked.

[quaker bill]

4. We lost this war the day

Saddam's army faded into the underbrush. It is only a matter of time before we understand this.

[niceypoo]

6. We lost the war........

when they allowed the country to degenerate into chaos and our troops were ordered to stand around drooling like idiots doing nothing. Failure to immediately gain control after the invasion guaranteed the war was lost. Bush and Rummys 'plan' was so totally incompetent they were completely unprepared for the aftermath. Now we have another Iran/Afghanistan. Thanks a lot assholes.