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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Rascal who wrote (26827)8/30/2003 9:15:08 PM
From: Rick Faurot  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
Friedman and anybody else who thinks that reconstituting the Iraqi army is going to help us out of the jam we are in in Iraq is hallucinating. Most of the now disbanded army just want to start getting paychecks again so they can keep themselves in smokes and something to eat.

And the problem with hiring former army to be army again brings up the flaw that was central to Bushco policy going in--nobody in Iraq wants us there. To Iraqis we are infidels, invaders, and ripoff artists. We're there to steal their oil. So why are former army members going to be helpful to us? Half of them--the smart half--are still loyal to Saddam. That is the side their bread has been buttered on for thirty years and old habits die real hard when you're living off the dole. At best a new Iraqi army is going to be just as big of a political unknown as everyone else in Iraq. The big difference is we're going to be handing each and every one of these guys a shiny new AK-47--probably at a big profit to our "buddies" at Halliburton and Carlyle Group--and a few clips full of rounds, while so far we've been trying to disarm everybody else.

So what's to stop the thousands of Islamic warriors under Sadr from joining the new army? What's going to keep out the Baathists and even the Al Qaeda? Friedman suggests we let some Iraqi colonel sort them out. Oh yea, that's gonna work. Anybody who made colonel under Saddam is going to be loyal to Saddam. And by the way--has anybody seen Saddam lately? Give him his army back, he's likely to be ten times as dangerous as he is right now.
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