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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Y'know, I can keep copying and pasting this statement for as long as you idiots keep insisting that a mere 200,000 people willing to join an armed insurgency is meaningless, and as long as you keep comparing (unattributed, and most certainly unanswered) calls for "civil war" and "civil disobedience" to an armed insurgency.
As for comparing participation in a Senate hearing to the killin gof US soldiers, I have no comment.
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First of all, it's estimated at 40,000. Second of all, it's hardly meaningless. I think it's a real, but surmountable problem. My post was essentially going to the nature of the problem (i.e., that it does not have the hallmarks of a militarily defined "insurgency.")
That said, it is very disruptive to our efforts, and won't be "put down" until the Iraqis are trained sufficiently, in sufficent numbers, and with sufficient equipment to put it down themselves.
