General Casey, Your and Rumsfeld's rhetoric just doesn't add up!

General George Casey, America's top general in Iraq basically admits in an article in this week's Newsweek that the Iraqis are either a bunch of cowards or they're really too savvy for us and they've fooled us into dying for their 'democracy'.. Personally, I think it's a little of both. But, one thing is for sure, what we're being told just doesn't add up...

Newsweek:Iraqis say the only way to quell the insurgency is for U.S. forces to withdraw immediately from the cities. Why isn’t that happening? Gen. Casey:It is. By and large, our bases are on the outskirts or on the outsides of the cities...What happened in Fallujah [in November 2004] is that you put a local brigade in there that wasn’t strong enough to control the terrorists and foreign fighters to keep them out. So they came in and they took it over. So there are instances where [the Iraqis] need our help because they just aren’t strong enough. Newsweek:But those are the areas where the demand for U.S. withdrawal is strongest, and where it could make the most difference. Casey:If we left Ramadi today, it would be Fallujah in 60 days. And we’d have to fight our way back in. And [the Iraqi forces] will acknowledge to you that they are not strong enough to throw the foreign fighters out. The minister of Defense is from Ramadi and he has said they can’t do it, they’ve told him they can’t do it...

What do you mean General Casey when you say the Iraqi forces 'are not strong enough to throw the foreign fighters out of Ramadi'? Not that long ago your senior officer in Ramadi, Col John Gronski, said this about Ramadi, "Of 1,300 suspected insurgents arrested over the past five months in and around Ramadi, none has been a foreigner". Also General, it has been well documented that the entire 'insurgency' consists of 30,000 fighters and that only, 'between 4 and 10 percent' of those are 'foreign fighters'. So, at tops there are maybe 3,000 foreign fighters, and it's probably half that, in Iraq. So, let's see, there are only a total of 30,000 insurgents and of that, 3,000 are 'foreigners'. --30,000 TOTAL insurgents. Now, just last month Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld told the American people that "Iraq now has 212,000 trained security forces and more than 100 engaged military and police battalions". So General, I guess my obvious question would be, sir, do you mean to tell us, that 212,000 'trained and equipped' Iraqi security forces cannot handle 30,000 insurgents? You know when I deal in those types of 'big' numbers I sometimes like to divide it by 10 to get a better perspective. You know, look at it as being 21,200 men fighting 3,000-and then you can sometimes divide by 10 again and view it like 2,120 security forces against 300 insurgents and you can on to 212 fighting 30 and 21 fighting 3 and all the way down to 7 against 1 you idiots! General Casey, your and Secretary Rumsfeld's numbers and rhetoric just don't add up. You need to tell your bosses it's time to bring our troops home. It's time the Iraqis 'stood up', as your Commander-In-Chief is so fond of saying. Our young men and women should not be dying for a bunch cowards, who out-number their foes, 7 to 1, and who should be fighting their own battles! Bring our troops home now! Newsweek