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To: Bruce L who wrote (146380)9/26/2004 8:56:27 PM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 281500
 
Your memory may be better than mine. The part below does make sense and seem very doable:

It seems to me that with relatively little effort we could have -at what in retrospect seems a rediculously low cost - hired on the bulk of the Iraqi military to do basic security and border patrol work.

OTOH, I think it would have been a real tough job separating bad apples from good as suggested below:

If we had left the police and the police hierarchy, in place we could over time have eliminated the "bad apples".

But perhaps regular army troops could have done policing duty under martial law.



To: Bruce L who wrote (146380)9/27/2004 1:29:50 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
There never was an attempt to keep the regular army from evaporating

You are mistaken about this, there was a large psyops operation to try to get the regular army to surrender en masse. Instead, the army and the police basically shed their uniforms and went home. This was not anticipated.


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