OK, WHICH GROUP IS LARGER???

(Via Spencer Ackerman at TPM Muckraker)

From the Congressional Research Service:

Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security

Updated September 6, 2007

Number of Shiite militiamen
80,000 (60,000 Mahdi, 15,000 Badr, 5,000 other); up from 20,000
(2003)

Number of Iraqi Insurgents
25,000 U.S. estimates; Iraqi estimates run to 40,000, plus 150,000 supporters

AQ-I fighters
1,300 - 3,500