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To: Elroy who wrote (228835)	4/12/2005 11:11:10 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571927

I didn't ask you whether you want to be army mates with someone patrolling downtown Baghdad. I asked how many months do you think it takes to train an Iraqi to man a roadside checkpoint? Or even how many months training is required for an Iraqi to man the checkpoint on the road to the airport where the coalition shot at the escaped Italian journalist? Look, I am trying to make you understand by example. There is an insurgency in Iraq, so I can guarantee you that being a soldier there consists of more than manning a check point....the streets are a gauntlet and the job is dangerous... and even in the checkpoint example you used we saw that well trained American units may have made critical mistakes that led to the killing of a Italian agent. 8 weeks of training is one week shy of boot camp in the states, where training continues for 6 months after boot camp. Last point...the first training program in Iraq was conducted by elements of the 101st Airborne, and they ran an accelerated 8 week program. The attrition rate was staggering, and elements of these units refused to fight in Falluja and Mosul. Al