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To: Elroy who wrote (226691)	3/28/2005 8:54:54 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) of 1574060

Most roadside checkpoints get zero "action/insurgency". Cops are fine for this role. It should be done by Iraqis today, and not coalition forces. You don't need to be "battle hardened" to force an approaching vehicle to slow down and show its papers. Get real. Clearly you haven't read about Iraqi cops getting overrun by insurgents at checkpoints and at their own police stations. The Iraqi cops cut and run, or sometimes just hand over their weapons. Battle hardened troops or cops don't run when their is gunfire, rather, they head towards the gunfire. I bet you didn't know that. Do you support the idea that Iraqis should police their own country or not? Absolutely. The sooner the better. But it's taking alot of time. I'm not for any plan that says we should give up and pull our troops out before we have helped the Iraqis establish a domestic police force and hardened troops on the ground. It takes three months (or less) to train an Iraqi to be a cop, and the coalition has been there for two years. There should be close to zero coalition cop/patrolmen/security forces today, but instead there is ~140k. There should be plenty of Iraqi cops, but there are not. The reason is twofold: 1) the CPA's stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army and 2) the Iraqi trainees cutting and running at the smallest signs of engagement. As such, clearly the job is not done yet. I don't care if it is 2 years or 5 years. We should leave until the job is done. I read somewhere that one of our generals said that historically the average insurgency has taken 10 years to snuff out. I'd like to see Iraqis on the frontline of this battle, but I think realistically we will be on that frontline for at least the next year to year and a half. Most encouragingly are some of the most recent engagements. Iraqi commandos took the frontline in sweeping a terrorist training camp and it was a successful operation. So it looks like some progress is being made. Let's hope it speeds up.

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