rumsfeld Admits Iraq Security Problems

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/36C64DDC-8E47-4D88-9064-ACC6E9AA6E4E.htm

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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, has announced plans to accelerate the deployment of Iraqi security forces across the country even though many are being employed without the necessary training.

He made the comments on Sunday after a one-day visit to Kirkuk and Baghdad. The day trip was part of a whistle-stop tour taking in four countries including Afghanistan.

Rumsfeld told reporters that the Pentagon was eager to recruit Iraqis to handle a variety of security duties to combat insurgents and criminals in Iraq.

Rumsfeld admitted that some security staff would not receive adequate training because of the immediate need to have a visible police presence in towns and cities.

"Experts say it should take eight weeks to train a policeman. We put some out on the street after four, with the understanding that we needed them on the street and life isn't perfect."

[hadrons]

1. "...life isn't perfect." ....

nor is it valued by you, Dumsfeld

[Don_G]

2. Four Weeks?

That long?

Or are they reading a manual somewhere and spending the rest of the time trying to scrounge clean water from Halliburton?

[DUreader]

3. Some of them only get 1 day, I recall

4 weeks is a lie

[truthisfreedom]

4. ok, this makes sense. we've been there for months and months and

there hasn't been time to give anyone any training as police. right. sure. makes sense. i believe it. sure. so this isn't part of the plot to make the Iraqis hate us more, is it? because EVERYTHING BUSHCO DOES OVER THERE CREATES MORE HATE. bush must love hate for America, because he makes it happen every day.