Not sure yet if this another addition to the pantheon of bad ideas, or what.
The United States is planning increasingly to shift the duties of foreign troops in Iraq from providing security to training Iraq's new army and police to prevent more countries from abandoning the international coalition there and possibly lure others back.
Say it ain't so...countries are abandoning the Coalition of the Bought? [cue Claude Rains...]
From some of the press reports, it seems that many of the Iraqi's who make up "Iraq's new army and police" are less than enthusiastic about their new jobs. Not to mention the little problem of units that are heavily infiltrated with, to put it delicately, adversarial intelligence assets. Because I'm betting that these guys are the exception, not the rule right now.
Yeah, more Neocon wishful thinking. But, hey, Preznit Bad Ideas has not forgotten Poland!
posted by Jo Fish on 02.25.05 at 12:12 AM
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If we just keep believing... don't give up, keep believing... they *will* come back... I believe... Mein Fuehrer! I can walk! And here they come!
posted by: Nina on 02.25.05 at 02:55 PM [permalink]
Before the two year point someone needs to leak out the damage assessments for these "trained Iraqi police".
What percentage of each dollar paid goes towards the death of our soldiers? Total dollars spent?
Quantify this so people can grasp the failures of Bush, inc.
posted by: Mr. Murder on 02.28.05 at 10:14 AM [permalink]
