Troop surge

Once again Bush demonstrates his stupidity. He wants to up our forces in Baghdad by 30,000. Now the surge last July did not accomplishing anything, but what the hey. Of course this surge will be much bigger than last time. Then it was only about 1600 troops. But consider this.

New York City has a population of approximately 8,000,000. They had 590 murders in 2006. There are 38,000 police officers.

Baghdad population is 7,400,000. There were 14460 murders in 2006. There are presently 13,500 troops in Baghdad. If they get the 30,000, then there will be 43,500 troops. In other words there will only be 5,500 more troops in Baghdad then there are cops in NY.

Now, the old ratio was 10 support troops for each combat troop. I'm sure with the outsourcing of some jobs (KP and whatever else) this ratio has improved. I also know that not all 38,000 NY cops are directly fighting crime. Still it seems to be ridiculous to expect the troops to pacify a city in turmoil when it take 38,000 to maintain a peaceful city.

I do not mention any Iraqi forces because they are more likely to be part of the problem then part of the solution