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To: one_less who wrote (69195)	12/20/2004 1:17:31 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 89467

more BACKTRACK!!!! FIRST THE ECONOMY...>THEN JOBS....NOW IRAQ....MORE LIES TO COME>>>>>LIKE THE DRAFT ! Bush: U.S.-Trained Iraqi Troops Not Ready Yet By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Acknowledging new setbacks in Iraq, President Bush said today that the Iraqi security forces being trained by the United States and its allies were not in all cases ready to fight, and that bombers were "effective propaganda tools." Speaking at an end-of-the-year news conference, his second since he was reelected, the president said that the failure of Iraqi troops to stand firm on the battlefield was "unacceptable," but that in recent battles in Fallouja and Najaf, other units "did their duty." "I would call the results mixed," the president said, in a statement that was strikingly devoid of the optimism he generally expresses about conditions in Iraq. But, he said, "the Iraqi force is not ready to fight." He spoke on a morning after a series of attacks over the weekend targeted election officials in an apparent effort to disrupt momentum toward Iraqi elections at the end of January. "No question about it. The bombers are having an effect," Bush said. The president offered a show of strong confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has been sharply criticized in recent days by a number of Republicans, among them Sen. John McCain of Arizona.