lyonn
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:45 PM
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| How long should it take to train Iraqi troops? |
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I figure it takes 6 months to train U.S. soldiers for battle. Yet we have had 2 years to get the Iraqis trained to protect their country and it hasn't happened. Does the House mention this particular problem, nope. It is critical to the success in Iraq.
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| HysteryDiagnosis
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:46 PM
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| 1. How long did it take Saddam to train the hundreds of thousands he |
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Edited on Fri Nov-18-05 10:47 PM by 4MoronicYears
trained in guerilla warfare? Not that long.... then again, they believe in what they are doing.
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| patrice
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:47 PM
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| 2. Looks to me like Iraqis know how to fight already. |
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Edited on Fri Nov-18-05 10:51 PM by patrice
The Insurgency seems to demonstrate that Iraqis already know how to fight.
Maybe part of their incompetence as soldiers for the "new" Iraq is due to the fact that they can't commit to a regime that may not survive. How are they to kill or be killed for a government that may not work out.
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| RUMMYisFROSTED
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:48 PM
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Every Iraqi is a soldier now.
Or did you mean to be "trained" in our bidding? In that case, never.
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| lyonn
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:58 PM
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| 7. "Trained in our bidding?" Do ya think... |
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Recent documentaries have shown that the Iraqi police and military are pretty much a tongue in cheek situation. Our troops don't trust them and indicated that they appeared to work against our troops if given a chance. They don't respect what we are doing, it's like they are patronizing us while they shoot us in the back.
Guess that's was my point. We are not training them.
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| RUMMYisFROSTED
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Fri Nov-18-05 11:03 PM
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It's the results that are sketchy.
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| Davis_X_Machina
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:52 PM
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...the vastly different conceptions of the 'country' a putative Iraqi soldier would be defending -- a nascent Kurdistan? A Sunni rump state? An Iran-friendly Shi'a state? A secular, modernist democracy?
And we can't solve that confusion.
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:57 PM
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| 5. Let's turn this over to the U.N. |
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I know, I know, they won't take it--but isn't that the point?
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Fri Nov-18-05 11:01 PM
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| 8. Bush appears to turn down all offers of help |
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Guess he's afraid they may want in on the oil "take".
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Fri Nov-18-05 10:57 PM
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| 6. about 6 billion barrels. n/t |
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