Even a blind pig ocasionally stumbles across an acorn

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Jim Hoagland has been a consistent defender of the administration war policies. Has he found the road to Damascus? Worth reading in full.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50502-2004Jul14.html

The point is not 5,000 vs. 20,000. The insurgency's exact size is unknowable. The point is that enough officers in the field sense that what they see happening to their troops in Iraq is so out of sync with Washington's version that they must rely on the press to get out a realistic message. That is usually how defeat begins for expeditionary forces fighting distant insurgencies