U.S. General: Iraq Police Training a Flop

[othermeans]

TAJI, Iraq - Misguided U.S. training of Iraqi police contributed to the country's instability and has delayed getting enough qualified Iraqis on the streets to ease the burden on American forces, the head of armed forces training said Wednesday.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_fixing_security&cid=540&ncid=716

[bobthedrummer]

1. DYN CORP has the contract for "training" Iraq's police, corrections and

even judicial branches of "government"-kinda like the contract DYN CORP had in Bosnia:grr:

Click on DYN CORP (or any other mercenary) for updates on contracts.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/resources.aspx?act=total

[truthisfreedom]

2. ahh, nothing like another couple hundred million down the drain.

it grows on trees, doesn't it, bush?

[tlcandie]

3. How many times will it take them to figure this out?

Is the the second or third time that they've flushed our money away trying something that doesn't work in their culture?

Bafoons!

[dArKeR]

4. Isn't this the first time an America leader has portrayed the Iraqis

as 'human'?

"The soldiers didn't want to fight their own countrymen. Would you?" al-Sattar said as he and Eaton lunched on stewed beef and beans in the base mess hall. "Once there are division commanders and an Iraqi defense minister, the soldiers will start obeying orders because the orders come from an Iraqi leadership."


aWol, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz... the American Media speak of them only as animals.

[Ms. Clio]

5. Lessons learned

The lesson learned was that the soldiers needed an Iraqi command hierarchy. Eaton said the soldiers may have battled Fallujah's Sunni Muslim rebels if Iraqi leaders were spurring them on.

Of course--just get the right quislings in place, and all will be fine and dandy.


Wolfowitz also cited the importance of Iraqi commanders and said the April desertions shouldn't have been a surprise because of the Iraqis' shortcomings in training, equipment and leadership.

"No one had any expectation that Iraqi security forces would be ready this past April to stand up to the kind of fighting they encountered in Fallujah and in the Najaf-Karbala region," Wolfowitz wrote.

Wolfie, you vile, contemptible, lying prick--that fighting wasn't supposed to occur at all, remember? Remember how the Iraqis were going to greet us with flowers and kisses and cries of "me love you long time, please take our oil?"