Bush Lied in the Debate about Iraqi Force Numbers

[Killarney]

Shocking, I know.

Bush said, "There's 100,000 troops trained: police, guard, special units, border patrol. There's going to be 125,000 trained by the end of this year."

Ah, no.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=590914

But many of these assertions have met with scepticism from key lawmakers, congressional aides and experts, and Pentagon documents, given to lawmakers and obtained by Reuters, paint a more complicated picture. The documents show that of the nearly 90,000 currently in the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training. Another 46,176 are listed as "untrained," and it will be July 2006 before the administration reaches its new goal of a 135,000-strong, fully trained police force.

They estimated that 22,700 Iraqi personnel have received enough basic training to make them "minimally effective at their tasks," in contrast to the 100,000 figure cited by Bush.

[KittyWampus]

1. He Also Lied About # Afghanis That Registered To Vote

he said 10 million but there are only about 9.5 million even qualified to vote.

[DebJ]

2. I saw a news clip in the past 10 days or so on the WH lawn,

I think it was, with Allawi and Bush. Allawi says one figure, might have been 50,000 or 25,000...then within a matter of minutes, Bush starts talking and says 100,000. Right there, standing next to this 'non-puppet' person, he doubles what he just said. I was flabbergasted.

[Union Thug]

4. New name for lil' George: Bush by 4

Take all his numbers, divide them by four.. you get the picture... =)

[knowbody0]

3. mostly bubba just armed

and "trained" the enemy insurgent. can you imagine as a u s soldier
going out on patrol with them watching your back. this whole senario
is so fuckin sick

[Supersedeas]

5. 100K troops are missing--Rove smiles...is that all?