[LS]

Quite the contrary, the numbers are overwhelmingly in our favor. They don't have to wear American uniforms to help us. The "problems" you raise were, in fact, all common to every one of the insurgencies I listed. Often, it was much worse. And in Iraq, we have a trump card that NO previous insurgency has ever had (well, except Mexico in the 1840s) which is that we can bring the dictator back at any time, because WE HAVE HIM!!

[Check_Your_Premises]

That is interesting, you mean to threaten the Iraqis with the return of Saddam?

Funny.

I begin to wonder if Saddam's brutality was less a function of his psychopathy, rather it might be the only practical way to govern the Iraqis?

[Captain Kirk]

The "numbers" are in our favor? How then, do you account for the fact that the latest Gallup Poll shows that 57 percent of Iraqis now want American troops to leave immediately. Is that your idea of progress?