As chaos swept Iraq after the American invasion in 2003, the Pentagon began its effort to rebuild the Iraqi police with a mere dozen advisers. Overmatched from the start, one was sent to train a 4,000-officer unit to guard power plants and other utilities. A second to advise 500 commanders in Baghdad. Another to organize a border patrol for the entire country.
Read it and weep. No one, it seems went to Mess O'Potamia unless they had the 1600 Crew-standard two-week notice or got hired off the Heritage Foundation website.
And we wonder why there's an "insurgency" in Iraq. Must have been those 1000's of small errors, all on Preznit Hopelessly Fucked's watch.
posted by Jo Fish on 05.22.06 at 12:31 AM
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Sending enough people to actually do the job right would have cut into Halliburton's profits too much.
They did not want a smooth transition. The NATO work with the Balkans ethnic wars showed it is possible.
For the most part Iraq seems to of had consistent background. Mishandling the country feeds the contractor spree.
Larry Johnson says much of the infrastructure sabotage occurs at the hands of the small Iraqi fronts being subcontracted. It keeps them working, blowing up their own work. That is feedback hew gets from service who have shared their experiences there...
Feith and Chalabi are all shits and giggles about this, no doubt. Ditto Rummy.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 05.28.06 at 11:42 AM [permalink]
