How many soldiers…

Will Rogers, the pundit of the last century said…

I told our secretary that I wished we had the biggestwill.gif navy in the world, the biggest army, and by all means, the biggest air force, but have it understood with the taxpayers they they are only to be used to defend the home grounds. Be ready for it, and then just stay home!

I guess we have about 170,000 troops in Iraq…Let’s see now, if we posted 20 soldiers over every mile of our land border, that’s about one for every 265 feet. OK, that’d take about 100,000 leaving about 70,000 to pay special attention to security at points of entry. Now, figure in the private contractors and…let’s see now…

Hmmm.

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