>>Do you know there are 212,000 in the Iraqi army? That's more troops than the entire colation has over there.
>>That means that more Iraqis are willing to stand up to the insurgency and secure their own future with their lives than there are Westerners in Iraq.
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>Where did you get that number? ABC says 100,000 troops of which 700 are fully ready to go.
>http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=1316059
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>I think that solidly debunks your statement.

Apparently 212,000 number isn't the number of troops in the army. It is the number of Iraqi security forces total, army + police.

So instead of "army" read "security force."