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Speaking for myself, I'm getting plenty tired of hearing about the problems with the Iraqi troops, the Iraqi police and the Iraqi security forces. It occurs to me we are all overlooking the obvious again. (But of course this will take commitees, hearings, investigations etc)
Iraq is an occupied country...by us! We have destroyed most of that country now and what little is left is rapidly going the same way. It's not safe to walk down any street outside of the Green Zone. They call them 'insurgents', 'terrorists' etc..
The majority of these people are Iraqi's!!! Duh.. fighting the invaders...us!
The training of the new army and police force isn't going well! Whose standards?? OUR standards, I guess!! No one can figure out why this is just not going well; why we can't get more trained, why there are so many sneaking around and helping the so called insurgents, defecting, disappearing etc..etc..
Without a commitee or any investigation, the following thought occurs to me...
Were we Americans under occupation, how would we react when those training us to do it their way, ordered us to pick up arms and fire/kill other Americans. Could we do it? This is what we are asking them to do; take aim at their fellow Iraqis...
Too much common sense for this discussion? Perhaps if some of our 'brain children' think tanks would use some common sense, some ideas might pop up as to what the problem is... WE are the problem, Iraqi patriotism is the problem...GET OUT is the answer..NOW!
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