19 billion dollars later, Iraqi forces fall short

The United States has sunk more than 19 billion dollars into training Iraqi forces, but new army and police units still cannot enforce security, a congressional report warned Wednesday.

Four years after the US invasion, 346,500 Iraqi military and police have been trained, but readiness is not evenly spread and there is strong evidence some newly trained troops are committing sectarian violence, the report said.

The study, by a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Armed Services panel, was the latest unflattering assessment of US operations in Iraq, and came as support ebbs for current Iraq policy among Senate Republicans.

The hugely expensive and complicated US mission to train Iraqi forces has had "mixed results," the report said, with Iraqi police forces particularly problematic.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070627/pl_afp/uscongressmilitary_070627185219

Iraqi security not ready despite training - report
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27260438.htm

"Hell, the republicons swallowed my lies whole hog, and the corporate media, too. I definitely recommend lying about your military capabilities and service record. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL

"Oh yeah, me loves them no-bid contracts. Sneer, sneer, sneer.

"Oh yeah, almost forgot my propaganda talking point:
too bad about all the dead people and stuff."

- Dickie "Five (5) Military Deferments Chickenhawk" Cheney

As the saying goes.

we could have hired 19 million undocumented workers in the US, trained them, shipped them to Iraq to be the army and police


and still had 18.5 billion left

this is theft

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