Generally speaking, it takes about one day to train a beer vendor.

[BuyingThyme]

It takes about forty-five days to train a truck driver.
It takes about ninety days to train an infantryman.
It takes about one hundred days to train a wild stallion.
It takes about four years to train an accountant.
It takes about seven years to train a lawyer.
It takes about eleven years to train a doctor.

How long does it take to train an Iraqi to be an Iraqi?

[Lasher]

1. I don't know but would you please direct me to that beer vendor.

I like beer.

[Bucky]

2. Well, it they're vending beer, they probably could start with being retrained in Islam

[jobycom]

3. I think the problem is we are trying to train them NOT to be Iraqis.

We are trying to train them to be Americans. Until we revision our plan, we will never succeed.

[SoCalDem]

4. They are not trying to train them to be "Iraqi"..

they are trying to train them to forget about thousands of years' worth of tribal grudges, and to work together & to stop killing each othyer.. That's an impossible task..but Americans think short-term..most of the rest of the world holds their native histories forever....and at any given moment, can dredge up a 2,000 yr old grudge.. Especially in the Middle east..

[MercutioATC]

5. It takes less than four months to train an American to fight in Iraq.

Why does it take over five years to train an Iraqi to fight in Iraq?

[LiberalFighter]

6. If it only takes 7 years for a lawyer and 11 years for a doctor then why...

do they call their profession a practice? No matter what happens they are still training for their job by practicing.

[Bucky]

7. Complete this sentence: "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first..."

___________________. Now, define the word "practice" as used in that sentence.