Sources say the Republican Guards defending Baghdad have around 60,000 men. The reports today indicate that the so-called Fedayeen troops may number as many as 30,000. I don't think the 3rd Mech Division, and 101st air assault and the 1st Mef have 370,000 men in them. It is believed that the total Army presence in the region is nearly 68,000 soldiers and 16,000 Marines for a total of 84,000 fighters. This means that if you combine the count of just the Republican Guard and Fedayeen troops we are actually outnumbered.

The numbers you hear the Pentagon say about deployments in the 200,000-300,000 range include all of the support troops, sailors on the various ships in the Gulf etc. These folks, while valuable, aren?t at the sharp point of the stick. Our superiority in weapons, training, air power etc.(called force multipliers) offsets this a great deal and we are in no danger of losing the war, but why go in with numbers that are closer to even if you don't have to?

We are against this war, Mr. Bush--shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. [boos increase, music raises] And anytime you've got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

"Oh, it was so sweet, you should've seen it," Steve Martin says after the commercials. "The teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo."

Crazed laughter and applause.

San Francisco is the most anti-war city in America, but the protesters were determined to make us pay for this war anyway.

After all, it's the only city they could shut down -- not counting Berkeley and Oakland, where many of the young protesters came from. Maybe next time, they could bring their own cops.

San Francisco is stuck with a $500,000-a-day bill for police enforcement. That's money that never will be spent on the homeless or health care for the poor.

If the Geneva Convention meant anything to this regime, we wouldn't be there in the first place. Treaties are scraps of paper to these people; and that is one more reason why they must be killed.

All those POWs were beaten. The ones who weren't executed on the spot were paraded before the cameras.

Remember: Since they were not all executed, the Hans Blixs' of the world would call this "evidence of substantial compliance" with the Geneva Convention.

Is the president taking care of something that should have been taken care of on your watch?

Of course, that's the question that irritates me the most, because the mission was not to kill Saddam Hussein; the mission wasn't to occupy Baghdad back then.

Did you think that pressure from inside would make Saddam fall in the first gulf war?

Absolutely. I thought he'd be dead, and so did every single Arab leader, every leader in the Gulf felt he'd be gone. And Mubarak felt he'd be gone, the Brits, the French, everyone. So I miscalculated there, yes, but getting rid of him still wasn't the objective.

We have been asked by many of our friends to respond to Frum?s fact-free account of conservative history in his recent attack on Chronicles, VDare, Lew Rockwell, Justin Raimondo, Joe Sobran, and Robert Novak. (For someone who claims to be a historian of the conservative movement, he is amazingly ignorant.) Our first reaction was: Why should we? We have nothing in common with people like Frum, and anyone who regularly reads NRO has had the equivalent of a lobotomy. [emphasis mine]