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2006-05-22 Iraq

Why the Iraqi police turned out the way they did

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-05-22 01:24|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Plenty to go around, I'd say.

If only Pinchy had been in charge.

Posted by random styling 2006-05-22 07:35|| 2006-05-22 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The training may not have been up to snuff but no amount of training could have overcome the tribalism problem.

In the military, you can have divisions with mixed ethnicity and during deployment, almost everybody is serving outside their native turf.

However, the police are by nature, homeboys. They are more passionately committed to home, clan, tribe than to country.

Posted by mhw 2006-05-22 08:28|| 2006-05-22 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Arrogance exposed, on the part of our military. They really didn't care about order in the street.
But then, Congress doesn't care about the borders either.
Let's plan better in the future.

Posted by wxjames 2006-05-22 10:16|| 2006-05-22 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 More CIA CYA - they some info internally, but didnt get it out out externally - and now try to claim their report (which caused the initial mess by feeding bad intel to the commanders) wasnt the one they delivered.

This was compounded by the diplomatic mess with Turkey, which left the military commanders scrambling for the primary military victory objectives, and left open the "triangle" area, specifically Ramadi and Tikirt and the Syrian border areas.

There's plenty of blame to go around, although State and CIA will never step up and admit thier key roles in the mishandling of the initial occupation.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-22 11:04|| 2006-05-22 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Saws ears? Silk purses?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-22 15:13|| 2006-05-22 15:13|| Front Page Top

#6 A mere matter of gene splicing Grom.

Posted by 6 2006-05-22 18:11|| 2006-05-22 18:11|| Front Page Top

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