Iraqi police recruits often poor-quality -- report

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25698332.htm

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - Iraq's embryonic police service is taking in too many recruits who are criminals or barely literate or may even be insurgents, according to a U.S. government report cited by Time magazine.

The formation of an effective police force is a mainstay of the U.S. strategy for making Iraq increasingly self-reliant in combating an insurgency against which U.S. troops are currently the main defence.

In its Aug. 8 edition, Time said a new progress report on the Iraqi Police Service by the Pentagon and State Department inspectors general found that, while improvements had been made to the training programme, serious problems remained.

Time said the report, expected to be released this week, said that "too many recruits are marginally literate; some show up for training with criminal records or physical handicaps; and some recruits allegedly are ... insurgents".

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1. They better be happy and take what they can get. I suspect that

after Desert Storm and this horrible slaughter, and 8 years of fighting Iran before that, that the male population isn't what it used to be. And at the rate we're killing them, and they're killing each other, they'll be recruiting ten year olds soon.

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2. "combating an insurgency against which U.S. troops are currently

the main defence."

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Ah. There was an insurgency in Iraq and the Iraqis asked the US for help because they couldn't defend themselves. The US boys are there for the defence of the Iraquis. That's how that must have gone.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

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3. quantity not quality - new Pottery Barn ownership policy by Condi