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The US has more than 60,000 Iraqis under arms in less than 4 months from victory and that number will push 100,000 soon, as we activate the Iraqi intelligence and the new Army. Those Iraqis are far more valuable than UN Blue Helmets -- Pakistanis, Uruguayans and Nigerians -- who must be flown in, rotated out, taught the language and oriented in the culture. Unlike the Blue Helmets, the Iraqis will shoot. Because you are looking for complementary capabilities, there comes a point where you prefer an Iraqi brigade to the French Foreign Legion, or even an additional US brigade, because that's a better mix than a pure foreign security force.

There are some liberals who want the US to deploy 500,000 men to Iraq -- every operational brigade in the services -- and do it under the command of the United Nations.

Yup. The same people who think that you fix the education system by throwing money at it think that you solve this problem by throwing troops at it. They are right and wrong at the same time. We do need to throw troops at it.... Iraqi troops.