Attacking the lie about Iraq's foreign insurgents. There are not very damn many!

The US and Iraqi governments have vastly overstated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq, and most of them don't come from Saudi Arabia, according to a new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). According to a piece in The Guardian, this means the US and Iraq "feed the myth" that foreign fighters are the backbone of the insurgency. While the foreign fighters may stoke the insurgency flames, they only comprise only about 4 to 10 percent of the estimated 30,000 insurgents.

You know how you sometimes hear something and immediately know that it is Bullshit? Well for me this was one of those news items that never really rang true for me. All I had to do is imagine Canada driving tanks through my Alaska neighborhood, deposing my leaders, cutting off my water and electricity, and then telling me to form a new government, for me to know that I would be hiding on a rooftop waiting to blow away some canuck military dude! The Iraqi's have every reason in the world to rise up against the occupying force. Who wouldn't?