Iraqi Marines Gear Up to Guard So. Oil Terminals-- (really??)

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
Tomorrow at Buzzflash.com


1//The Jordan Times, Jordan Friday-Saturday, October 14-15, 2005

http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news8.htm



IRAQI MARINES GEAR UP TO GUARD SOUTHERN OIL TERMINALS



BASRA OIL TERMINAL IN THE GULF (AFP) — After barely three weeks of training at the hands of the US navy, Iraqi Lieutenant Saba Mohammad Amin is confident that his men are ready to protect Iraq's oil terminals in the Gulf.





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“Training with them is challenging. The idea of standing guard 24 hours a day in the same position is foreign to them,” said Johnson, manning an outpost on the roof of the building of Iraq's South Oil Company along with a fellow American and two Iraqi Marines. “They have a different attitude about the military.”



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“In the US, there is a sense of pride for being in the military,” Lieutenant Lee Payne, a 26-year-old from Virginia, explained.



“A lot of these guys are here, but it's like another job,” he said of the Iraqi marines, stressing that some of them “don't have a sense of duty.”



“It's going to take at least a few months before they can take over security,” he continued.

“They have the knowledge, they have the ability to do well. But when we're not here to tell them what to do, will they be able to remember?”



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[daleo]

1. The problem isn't their memory

It is the natural ambivalence created by working for a puppet government during the military occupation of a foreign power.

[LynnTheDem]

2. "will they be able to remember?”

WHITE MAN'S BURDEN.

Such a heavy load.

Of bullshit.

[Gloria]

3. Kick in honor of Cheney on FAUX saying 200,000 Iraqis are trained

If they're all like these troops......