JUST A REMINDER OF THE HUGE NUMBER OF TROOPS we still have in the region supporting this effort.

Between you and me...lets hope nobody else tries to pick a fight with us right now.

Large-scale military raids continued in Baghdad and across a broad arc of territory north and west of the capital, resulting in the arrest of more than 400 people since Monday, military officials said.

Several thousand troops from the 1st Armored Division, the 4th Infantry Division, the 101st Airborne Division, the 3rd Infantry Division and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment were involved in the raids, which have been mounted to try to suppress pockets of resistance that are fomenting small scale attacks on U.S. forces.

The whole story is here.