- "Contrary to U.S. government claims, the insurgency in Iraq is led by well-armed Sunnis angry about losing power, not foreign fighters, and is far larger than previously thought, American military officials say.
"The officials told The Associated Press the guerrillas can call on loyalists to boost their forces to as high as 20,000 and have enough popular support among nationalist Iraqis angered by the presence of U.S. troops that they cannot be militarily defeated.
"That number is far larger than the 5,000 guerrillas previously thought to be at the insurgency's core. And some insurgents are highly specialized - one Baghdad cell, for instance, has two leaders, one assassin, and two groups of bomb-makers."
As per their usual pattern, this administration totally screws things up by assuming the BEST-case scenario, and basing thier decisions on the assumption that everything will be just rosy.
And that's giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming that their problem is just incompentence, as opposed to lies and villainy.
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