Originally posted by Mysti-ken:
Originally posted by Jeb Hoge:
Originally posted by Mysti-ken:
every Iraqi male over the age of 17 has an AK47; implying that they are combatants.



This is where you're continuing to disconnect from the argument. There has been no such implication, except the one you keep attempting to pin on Sandman.



Thank you, but I did understand the subtleties of Sandman's claim - other than to prove that Iraqi insurgents are well armed (no dispute from me) however, I don't see the relevance of the number of weapons when the discussion was about the number of innocents in Iraq.

The number of insurgents is the important number IMO, and Sandman believes the U.S. government is lieing about that.

The only thing I wanted throughout this discussion was a little balance - good wishes for millions of innocent Iraqis along with the good wishes for the soldiers. Why does anyone have a problem with that?



Yes, I do believe that the insurgency is much larger than any report you are likely to find outside a Secret classification. That is based on what I have experienced while in Iraq for over a year, travelling all throughout the country. Hell, for the first 2 months, I didn't even live in base camp, but rather out of my truck.

My initial post in this thread was to refute the suggestion that weapons proliferation was being exaggerated. I hardly think that is the case.

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