Wow, so any time we do a poll here in the states, we have to call all 300 million? Point is that I have been all over Iraq, performed many and varying missions (including medrets where we go out to villages and spend all day giving out free medical care and talking to the populace), and so I have a fairly accurate representative sample of what is there.

I expect that there are as many or more AKs in Iraq as there are males 17 and over.

Further, we have yet to secure the borders with Iran and Syria. Iran particularly, with their historical bent toward Democracy, does not want Iraq to succeed. That would be a virtual death knell for the mullahs. Given this, I don't believe there is any way to get an accurate assessment of the number of insurgents, as they come and go as they please. They are not an army, and thus have no easily identifyable uniforms, and can slip in and out of the populace nearly at will. This makes it difficult to identify and fight them.

From the DAILY intelligence reports I received for over 14 months in country (the content of which I obviously cannot discuss here), from my EXTENSIVE experience within Iraq, I am confident in my statements here. Further, given that experience and intelligence, I am the de facto subject matter expert on this issue for CEG, thank you very much.

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