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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 12:16 PM
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I'd think US cops would be pissed at Sen. Allen

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/21/allen-loyalty/


Allen Says U.S. Police Have Same Loyalty Problems As Iraqi Security Forces

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STEPHANOPOULOS: We read on the front page of the Washington Post this morning that these elements of the Iraqi military, the army and security forces we’re training up, are actually, many of them, still loyal to their parties, still loyal to their militias and it’s not a national army.

ALLEN: Well, that’s true. And you have that even in our United States. We have local police; we have state police, and you have the FBI…
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 12:19 PM
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1. Listen to the whole thing.
I watched the show. He was attempting to dodge a question and doing so badly. He was not bashing US Police. He was trying to avoid telling the truth about Iraqi Police.
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 12:20 PM
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2. and in the process he dissed our cops
nt
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 12:21 PM
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3. Not if you listen to the whole thing. He was comparing early Police
forces when our country was formed. Trying to link the fact that they belonged to militias etc.
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