Iraq Insurgents Can Conduct 60 Strikes Daily -Pentagon

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20050217/ts_nm/iraq_congress_dc


"We've tracked the number of attacks per day and what they can do is 50 to 60 attacks that they are able to conduct countrywide, with spikes. And that seems to be their capacity," Air Force Gen. Richard Myers told the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites).


Myers, who testified with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, characterized the insurgency fighting some 150,000 U.S. forces in Iraq (news - web sites) as "a limited capacity."


He said it was difficult to determine the number of insurgents in Iraq because "they don't have a central organization ... so as you pick up insurgents and you debrief them and you find what they have in their rooms and on their computers, you don't find the wiring diagram."


Rumsfeld on Wednesday told a House of Representatives committee he did not "have a lot of confidence" in the CIA (news - web sites) and Defense Intelligence Agency estimates on the number of insurgents, which are classified.

[tooncesj0nes]

1. bull. we've broken the back of the insurgency...

..when we caught saddams sons. everyone knows they were behind it..no wait..it was saddam..and hes been captured....oh..it was the bombing of Falluja that put the insugency down... where do they get these numbers?. there arent any insurgents.

[whistle]

2. Sounds like the U.S. needs about 500,000 troops in Iraq

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Not one man less than 400k, IMHO. Signed, Gen E Shinseki

[wordslikelead]

4. Well, atleast we got rid of the threat of a nuclear strike on US soil!

I feel horrible for the men and women serving in Iraq right now.

I'm also sick of the term "insurgent." I don't understand how all of the news organizations decided on that dumb name.

[MGKrebs]

5. And it's not zero-sum

in that I would imagine they are making more "insurgents" every day.