Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Define "rushed"
From CNN,
Despite calls in Washington and Iraq to pull out foreign troops, the U.S. general in charge of helping Iraq create an army says training troops to replace coalition forces cannot be rushed.
It's been 73 weeks since the hand over of "sovereignty" to Iraq and 2 years and 28 weeks since Bush declared the end to major combat. That's a lot of time to get Iraqi forces to be able to stand up on their own. During the 2004 presidential debates, Bush claimed there were 120K Iraqi security personnel up and running. I don't see what will happen between now and an "unrushed" readiness.
John Murtha's idea that Iraqi forces will not be ready until they're forced to get ready makes a lot of sense: we've been attempting to get them ready for two years already. Something needs to shift - "staying the course" seems to mean making excuses instead of making peace.
// posted by Erik @ 11/22/2005 09:46:00 PM
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