No Comments on Bush's Speech

[nicky g]

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This 50:1 ratio assumes competent and well-trained personnel. The Iraqi troops are neither.

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I think the 50:1 is for US troops only, in the Baghdad and Anbar areas.

It won't work though. Such levels might have prevented the collapse of security after the invasion but they won't restore security with a raging insurgency and civil war in place and the US apparently about to turn the Mahdi army against it. Also, the population size isn't the only factor; Anbar is HUGE and there won;t be anything like enough troops to secure it or patrol it properly.