One last push and that’s you finished in Iraq, Mr President

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Author(s)	Simon Jenkins
Source	The Times
Date	January 7, 2007
URL	http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article1290209.ece
Quote	"The idea that such a hellhole can be policed back to normality with an extra 20,000 US troops is absurd. Such a force (which means barely 7,000 on patrol at any one time) would simply disappear into the dust. The insurgency is anyway now entangled with the conflict between Shi’ite and Sunni, claiming hundreds of lives each week and fought by paramilitaries mostly armed by America in a shambles of unaudited theft and fraud."

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This item argues against the position United States should increase troop levels on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.