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To: stockman_scott who wrote (164083)	6/12/2005 2:30:56 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

The second memo makes the Bush administration look out of control. Obviously it was and still is. As O'Neill stated, the Bush administration doesn't discuss anything or think anything through. Questions were seen as disloyalty. Does BubbleBoyBush even get dispatches from the front? Immoral lying coupled with gross incompetence. ===========http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902245.html?nav=hcmodule Building Iraq's Army: Mission Improbable Project in North Reveals Deep Divide Between U.S. and Iraqi Forces By Anthony Shadid and Steve Fainaru Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, June 10, 2005; Page A01 ....Young Iraqi soldiers, ill-equipped and drawn from a disenchanted Sunni Arab minority, say they are not even sure what they are fighting for. They complain bitterly that their American mentors don't respect them. In fact, the Americans don't: Frustrated U.S. soldiers question the Iraqis' courage, discipline and dedication and wonder whether they will ever be able to fight on their own, much less reach the U.S. military's goal of operating independently by the fall. "I know the party line. You know, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, five-star generals, four-star generals, President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld: The Iraqis will be ready in whatever time period," said 1st Lt. Kenrick Cato, 34, of Long Island, N.Y., the executive officer of McGovern's company, who sold his share in a database firm to join the military full time after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "But from the ground, I can say with certainty they won't be ready before I leave. And I know I'll be back in Iraq, probably in three or four years. And I don't think they'll be ready then." "We don't want to take responsibility; we don't want it," said Amar Mana, 27, an Iraqi private whose forehead was grazed by a bullet during an insurgent attack in November. "Here, no way. The way the situation is, we wouldn't be ready to take responsibility for a thousand years."....