How about them 100,000 trained Iraqis

[TrogL]

(added link, quote and fixed spelling)

In last night's debates Dubya was going on about 100,000 trained Iraqis.

I was watching ABC last night and they quoted somebody saying the numbers are more like 30,000 and there's considerable question whether they're "trained".

http://poynter.org/forum/?id=misc (fifth paragraph)

America's last hope for a quick exit? The Iraqi police and National Guard units we are spending billions of dollars to train. The cops are being murdered by the dozens every day-over 700 to date -- and the insurgents are infiltrating their ranks. The problem is so serious that the U.S. military has allocated $6 million dollars to buy out 30,000 cops they just trained to get rid of them quietly.

If my arithmetic is correct, that leaves zero. Nada. None.

Oh, dear.

[tmooses]

1. It's that same "fuzzy math"

That calculates the number of registered Afghan voters at 10 mil-a figure that's higher than population of voting age in the entire country.

[TrogL]

3. Vote early, vote often?

[OneTwentyoNine]

2. Franken says the Pentagon says about 6,000-7000. Have to search..

for the true number. Looks like a whopper lie from Bush IMO.

David

[UCSBLiberalCat53]

4. It won't work no matter how many Iraqis you have

Bernie Ward made an excellent point in stating that Iraqis won't kill Iraqis unless you're talking about Shi'ites killing Sunnis and vice versa which would mean civil war. Another one of these fantasy pipe-dreams gone down the drain...