Darrel Issa (R-CA) on 'This Week': Iraqi's say they only have 8,000 troops who will fight.

[grahamhgreen]

ISSA: Iraqis should fight for their country. There's no question at all. They've been trained and they should do it.

The fact is the Kurds are willing to do it. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Kurds will fight. And all they need is our air support and our technical know how and they will do it.

When it comes to the Sunni-Shia divide that the Maliki government created, it makes it very, very hard to put together the kind of military units that they should have. That remains to be seen of whether or not the substantial portion of that 800,000 people we trained are willing to fight.

The fact is by the time they started fleeing, we were down to a quarter of a million. And when I met with the government they said, well, we have about 8,000 who will fight. I think they have to do better.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-rep-darrell-issa-sen-elect-cory/story?id=26778694

[Cali_Democrat]

1. The rest will fight to the last American. nt

[gordianot]

2. When is some one going to investigate Issa?

Providing intelligence to an enemy when American soldiers are in harms way.

[grahamhgreen]

3. Good point. Seriously.