Huffington Cooking Numbers
April 26, 2007
Arianna Huffington is an amazing woman.
She at one time was the loyal wife of her politician husband. Whose public life was as a Rigth Wing loyalist. She the Right wing wife of the olyalist. She was a great spokewoman for the cause.
Until, she underwent a transformation after her divorce of what we all found out was her gay husband. And then she went Left Wing on us.
Now, hey we all make mistakes, but such a fundamental shift in personal philosophy is not very likely in a person. I have always thought that wierd.
Today in the Huffington Report she rants about General David Petraeus went to Capitol Hill. How all the Right laments him. Except that they don’t seem to be following his script for success.
The trouble is, most of those touting his authorship have clearly never read his magnum opus. Or perhaps they have, didn’t like the plotline, and decided to ignore or alter the contents to fit their political agenda. (This, of course, is standard operating procedure for the Bushies..)
But let’s just focus on the 120,000 soldiers that, according to the manual written by Petraeus — “the expert on counterinsurgency,” remember? — are needed to secure Baghdad. Simply put: we’re not even close to that number. And never will be. Even after all of the planned 21,500 additional troops are sent to the embattled capitol, there will still only be 85,000 security forces there — and that includes significant numbers of Iraqi security forces, whose readiness and loyalty have repeatedly proven to be unreliable at best.
Okay, let,s see. According to the Army site the surge will more than likely take us up by 50,000 troops from the U.S. And according to the BBC site there are about 132,000 troops in the country, which make up 90% of the total number of foreign soldiers there.
It seems this surpasses the Generals expectations eh Arriana?
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