She's claimed this before and been corrected. But still she carries on as if 
it were true.

"We have got to win Iraq. And with the surge that has worked we're now down 
to presurge numbers in Iraq. That's where we could be."

Indeed it's where the US could be. But it's not.

Before the surge there were 133,000 troops in Iraq. Today there are 150,000.

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:23:15 +0100, "DVH"  wrote:

>She's claimed this before and been corrected. But still she carries on as if 
>it were true.
>
>"We have got to win Iraq. And with the surge that has worked we're now down 
>to presurge numbers in Iraq. That's where we could be."
>
>Indeed it's where the US could be. But it's not.
>
>Before the surge there were 133,000 troops in Iraq. Today there are 150,000. 

trust no-one...especially where numbers are concerned....

a robust statistician always quickly looks askance as the start
    and finish dates carefully *chosen* by humans

first one is may 2007....:-

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/316612_secondsurge22.html
"The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the
number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon
deployment orders showed Monday.

This "second surge" of troops in Iraq, which is being executed by
extending tours for brigades already there and by deploying more
units, could boost the number of combat troops to as many as 98,000 by
the end of this year. When support troops are included, the total
number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase from 162,000 now to more
than 200,000 -- the most ever -- by the end of the year.

The efforts to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq are being carried out
without the fanfare that accompanied President Bush's initial troop
surge in January."

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10627785
"The record: There are now about 152,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, about
17,000 more than the pre-surge levels. Bush has committed to leaving
138,000 troops in Iraq for the duration of his term in office, still
3,000 more than then pre-surge levels. Obama has been a consistent
critic of the war, opposing it in a speech as early as Oct. 2002. In
May, 2007, he voted against $124 billion in Iraq war funding, largely
to pay for the troop surge. And last November he voted against an
additional $70 billion in Iraq war spending this year. He opposed both
bills because they lacked a specific withdrawal plan."

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/factchecking_biden-palin_debate.html
"The surge was announced in January 2007, at which point there were
132,000 troops in Iraq, according to the Brookings Institute Iraq
Index. As of September 2008, that number was 146,000. President Bush
recently announced that another 8,000 would be coming home by February
of next year. But even then, there still would be 6,000 more troops in
Iraq than there were when the surge began."

regards...

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