Changes

*October 11, 2005: "... the number of men and women serving in uniform [stretched] past 200,000. Currently the Iraqi Ministry of Interior has 106,112 personnel serving as part of security forces. The Ministry of Defense has 93,959 service members in the military. ... more than 60,000 additional Iraqi security forces available than there were for the highly-successful January election held earlier this year. Since the effort to rebuild the country’s forces began about 15 months ago, <u>more than 115 special police and army combat battalions</u> have been formed as well as regular police, border enforcement and highway patrol for the Ministry of Interior and motor transport regiments, Navy, Air Forces and numerous training organizations for the Ministry of Defense." [http://www.mnstci.iraq.centcom.mil/docs/press/pdf/11%20OCT%202005%20Iraqi%20Security%20Forces%20cross%20symbolic%20milestone.pdf]

*November 20, 2005: Rumsfeld [http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/21/115201.shtml said]: "The U.S.-led coalition continues to make progress in training Iraqi security forces, [placing] their number at 212,000[, disputing] reports that fewer than 1,000 Iraqis were capable of fighting the insurgency without coalition assistance." Rumsfeld called "the lower number 'a red herring'" and said "it does not reflect the involvement of Iraqis in securing their country."

==Do the Math==