Something is wrong with this picture. How long should it take to train Iraqis? There has to be some people around from Saddam's old army and they could drive the tanks, learn about upgraded weapons, lead the troups..etc. I don't think they will become experts at Laser Guided Missiles or the Patriots in the near future because they won't have satellites. What they need to do is learn how to use the communications devices and learn how to shoot. The same things our boys learn when they are drafted and have only a few months of training.
Maybe they won't be marksman but our guys aren't marksmen either, that's why they are issued automatic repeating weapons so that at least 1 in 20 rounds hits the target.
Like I have been saying for years, Bush needs this war to make him look good because the man is an uninterested imbecile who cannot lead anything, except his
___ at a urinal. Remember how often he said he was "The War President?" He works out in the gym and reads speeches broken up into short line lists. That's what he does so they cooked up this war, which they wanted to do anyway, to make Bush and the Republican Party look tough.
Yet if you listen to the media, all you hear is that Cheney really thought the evidence proving that Iraq had no WMD was wrong. Even Frank Rich backed off on the Imus Show. How in god's name can they be given the benefit of the doubt after so many lies? Is this just another chapter of the "Emperors New Clothes?" Bush and Cheney are murderers and lying pigs but the press and the media are not prepared to tell that very obvious truth. How could anyone linking Iraq to 911 be telling the truth. Let's all get tough and call them liars and get all over the news media for inventing reasons why Cheney started this war. Meacham thinks it's Oedipal, that they are doing it for our own good. I say it's Criminal and they are doing it to hide their arrogance, hate and incompetence.
Maybe someone with a military background can enlighten us on why it takes three years or five years to train an Iraqi force. If it happened here, I'd bed we'd be ready pretty fast.
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Maybe it's just that the Iraqi force show no allegience to the coalition government and the minute the US leaves they will break apart. That breaking aparat will happen tomorrow or ten years from now. We are not winning their hearts and minds but they are taking our dollars and candy.