PENTAGON ADMITS IRAQI TROOP LACK: "During the 2004 election, the President and his team talked endlessly about the countless battalions of Iraqi troops that were helping out the coalition in its counterinsurgency fight. On May 15 of last year, for example, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told Wolf Blitzer that 'we now have 200,000 Iraqi security forces that are out there providing security in their country, and frankly, being killed themselves.' But the Pentagon's supplemental budget bill, released yesterday, shows just how hollow those words were."

(Via Defense Tech.)