Remember, Preznit Twins and War has said that we are on our way to more catastrophic success in BaghdadLand. Why just today in the Volkischer Beobachter Washington Post comes a story of the Fabulous recruitment drives going on to help fill those 100,000 police spots that Fearless Leader already assured us in the Rose Garden with Rose Colored Glasses were ummm...filled. Now, he'd never lie right? Seems that according to the Post recruiting is just phenomenal over down by the Old Maelstrom*.
Sabah Kadim, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, said that despite the attacks, young Iraqis continue to apply at a furious rate.
"Word spreads through the community; you don't need any publicity at all," Kadim said. "If we want 100 in an area, 3,000 show up. This is the amazing thing: Without any recruitment drive at all, the numbers are not only doubling but tripling."
Jabri said the phenomenon is easily explained: "Everyone wants jobs, and there really are no jobs but the police."
Well, could that be because the Neocons gave out all those contracts to you know, like, Cheneyburton and stuff? It's pretty sad when the best job the young Iraqis can get is being paid to wear a bulls-eye on their backs. And you have to wonder how deep the whole loyalty thing goes anyhow...
The United States military has arrested the head of the Iraqi National Guard in the city of Baquba on suspicion of collaborating with insurgents.
Lieutenant General Talib al-Lahibi headed the Iraqi National Guard in the violent Diyala province and commanded three battalions before being arrested on Thursday.
"Lahibi was detained by multinational forces [on] September 23 for having associations with known insurgents," the US military said in a statement.
Like it wasn't just a matter of time before they actually found someone like General al-Lahibi. How many more of these folks are out there, taking money from the US-backed puppets in the day and passing on information in the shadows, playing both sides against the middle?
*apologies to Tom Lehrer
posted by Jo Fish on 09.27.04 at 06:06 PM
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Too bad they didn't have a plan and didn't know what they were doing when they yanked the rest of us into this ruinous war. Think how much better things would have been if, instead of paying foreign contractors a hundred grand or more per year to drive trucks and do various jobs in Iraq, they had paid locals 25k a year for the same work. That's pretty good money over there based on what I have read elsewhere. And employment tends to make you feel a part of the rebuilding instead of being unemployed and inclined to shoot at the occupying army. So much foolishness exhibited int his entire fiasco.
