Iraqi forces desert posts as insurgent attacks are stepped up

[garybeck]

Iraqi forces desert posts as insurgent attacks are stepped up

Iraqi army and police units are deserting their posts after the recent escalation in insurgent attacks, according to reports from around the country yesterday.

The end of a relative period of calm after the election has posed the first real test for the embryonic security forces since coalition troops started cutting back on their military operations in February.

On average 20 Iraqis and two coalition soldiers have died every day this month.

Suspected Sunni insurgents set off two bombs yesterday near a Shia mosque in Baghdad that killed at least 15 people.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/25/ixnewstop.html

[ClintonTyree]

1. We're NEVER going to be able to withdraw from Iraq...

but I guess that was the plan all along, wasn't it? The U.S. will never be able to bring the soldiers home when Iraqi's are unwilling to fight and kill each other so America can be first in line at the oil tap. Civil war would come within weeks of an American withdrawal and an Islamic Theocracy would be in place within months.
Does anyone REALLY believe we're leaving?

[leftchick]

2. They leave behind their weapons and uniforms right?

I bet they get to collect their paychecks too. OUR TAX $$$!

[blogbear]

3. This 'exercise' could end up worse than Nam..Doesn't the US ever

learn?

[opihimoimoi]

4. "Success is just around the corner"

Yeah, right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!