As “The Tank” also points out, Gateway Pundit has several useful numbers. And they’re even more spectacular than they seem at first look, since the Petraeus Doctrine requires that the troops be ‘out there’ all the time, rather than–under the previous approach–sit on megabases and send out the recently trained Iraqis to do the dirty work. As GP points out, however, the distortionists at MSNBC etc. carefully have the story backwards.