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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (756032)	12/13/2006 3:11:41 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Problem With Iraq: As columnist George Will recently noted, “The ISG's central conclusion is that the problem with Iraq is the Iraqis.” If you do not quite understand George Will’s comment, then read the recently released report of the Iraq Study Group (ISG). All of 44 months after the U.S. invasion and conquest, the Iraqi security forces are a disaster. Civil society has broken down. What mere neglect and simple negligence do not do to degrade infrastructure the saboteurs of the insurgency are completing. The U.S.-trained Iraqi army, when it shows up for work, mostly cannot fight. According to the ISG report, the Iraqi army cannot sustain operations, has essentially no logistical pipeline, cannot maneuver, has poor communications systems, cannot offer indirect fire support or air support, has exceedingly limited medical capabilities, and is evidently not capable of defending whatever passes for an Iraqi national state. And to achieve this calamitous end, the U.S. has spent hundreds of billions of dollars that it borrowed form the Chinese and others.... Byron W. King Whiskey & Gunpowder