U.S. Documents Question Iraqi Police Training

[PermanentRevolution]

http://www.reuters.com/

"With interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at his side, Bush said on Thursday that nearly 100,000 fully trained and equipped Iraqi soldiers, police officers and other security personnel are already working and this number would rise to 125,000 by the end of this year.

But documents prepared by Defense Department officials and given to lawmakers show that fewer than 100,000 will be trained by the end of this year.

The Pentagon also said on Monday that only about 53,000 of the 100,000 Iraqis on duty now have undergone training.

The documents, obtained by Reuters, show that of the nearly 90,000 currently in the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training. And it will be July 2006 before the administration's new goal of 135,000 fully trained police is met.

The White House stood by the 100,000 figure cited by Bush, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said."


Raise your hands... who's surprised? Nobody?

Edit: Looks like the link is screwy. I changed it to the Reuters main page. It's on the front page, under "More Top News Articles"

[leftchick]

1. We really need to post the House hearing transcript on this......

I heard and watched for a while on cspan today. A female NY representative who voted for the war was pointing out the realities vs WH* spin quite well. The Pentagon includes "24 hours" as "some training". It really is amazing but not surprising how they twist the truth!

[saigon68]

3. A lot of Mercenaries in the Green Zone

are wearing this on a T-Shirt




Nice touch EH?

[leftchick]

5. Isn't that special!

Check this out about a group of hired killers....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2411922

[Tempest]

2. Direct link to article

http://tinyurl.com/3rspp

[PermanentRevolution]

4. Thanks, Tempest

Something about the Reuters link didn't work right.