That situation is lost. Over. Unless, of course, the US wants to maintain 300,000 troops and mercenaries, the Navy and the Air Force and most of the Marines incountry forever.

Bowser pulls another one of his famous nonsense pronunciations out of his...hat, and for some reason you think you need to come in and cover for him? Not very useful.

Bowser has no real idea where the Navy, the Air Force, or even the Marines are currently deployed, and the number "300,000" was made up on the spot. Even with that nebulous "100,000" pulled off Wikipedia, there is no way you can add any of the proposed long-term Coalition deployment numbers to that and get 300,000.

Incidentally, if you look up the references behind your Wikipedia quote, you get these two quotes:

Of all the changes in tactics that have made the war in Iraq distinct from prior U.S. engagements, perhaps no shift is as profound as the massive hiring--and varied deployment--of private contractors in combat zones. There are an estimated 100,000 contractors in Iraq, compared with a fraction of that the last time the U.S. was fighting there, and they are not working in just mess halls. They are bodyguards for vips, snipers in the field, translators and interrogators. They man checkpoints at Army bases and run supply convoys through the streets of Iraq. As with much of the occupation, the emergence of guns for hire among this contractor group was not part of the original plan. The number of contractors swelled, the insurgency grew, and the military was unable to provide adequate security for all of the civilian workforce. So companies like Blackwater began offering those services--at a high price--in the military's stead.

The Pentagon and company representatives estimate that 20,000 to 30,000 armed security contractors work in Iraq, although there are no official figures and some estimates run much higher.

Notice the quick sweeping together of the terms "private contractors" and "armed security contractors." The less-discerning reader, which apparently includes the Wikipedia writer, may not notice that suddenly the guys who empty the portable toilets and the guys who carry guns behind convoys have been classed as the same. And now we have 100,000 armed mercenaries--a term which has an exact meaning and doesn't include slopping food on a tray in a mess hall for a living.

For the record, the best estimates for the number of private security personnel in Iraq run between 20,000 and 30,000. There is more information in that document you might find useful.

Claiming that nobody knows for sure what the numbers are is not a license to make numbers up.

As one interesting aside, the document discusses why mercenaries may not actually fall under the Geneva Conventions, which is kind of weird when the current Enlightened Wisdom is that terrorists do.