[retrokitten]

I'm confused on the whole needing more troops thing. Don't we have something like 250,000-300,000 troops over there? How many are the Iraqi's supposed to have and how many of them are left?

[GOPyouth]

Major Garret (sp?) is on Fox right now discussing that. He said there are some old school military folk that are wanting this to be a Vietnam style overwhelming force.

Bombs hit in Bahgdad.. AAA going off.

[Dog]

Explosions in BAG!!!!!

[AngryAmerican]

250,000 "troops" translates into about 75,000 combat troops in country. The other 175,000 are support, maintenance, intelligence, or naval based on ships.

[Quilla]

From ABC News (my apologies):

"The Iraqi military is currently believed to have 23 military divisions, including six Republican Guard divisions. By comparison, during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, there was a total of 54, including eight Republican Guard divisions. The current divisions are largely comprised of armor and mechanized infantry.

Iraq maintains a military force of about 325,000 troops.

Before the military movements this week, there were 13 divisions — including some Republican Guard units — deployed in the north, roughly along the “line of trace” with the Kurdish minorities.

There are seven divisions in southern Iraq, all regular army units patrolling to keep control of the Shiite minorities. There are also three heavy armor and mechanized divisions of Republican Guard around Baghdad, charged with keeping control of the capital.

The size of Iraqi divisions varies but can run anywhere from 9,000 to 13,000 troops."

[SoldiersGirl]

Not all of those troops are infantry/artillery though. Some are support for infantry/arty, like the commo guys.
They're also maintanence, supply, PAC, chaplains, medics, cooks, etc.....

I agree we need more infantry there....