Senior Iraqi army officer criticizes US security approach

[Barrett808]

WAHSINGTON (AFP) - A top Iraqi military officer drew a dark picture of the security situation in his war-torn country while on a visit to Washington and said the current US strategy lacked vision and had failed.

"The DIME (diplomacy, information, military, economy) concept has failed in Iraq," said General Nasier Abadi, deputy chief of staff of the Iraqi army.

He said the current security approach lacked foresight necessary to predict such developments as radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr leading a powerful insurgency in Iraq.

"One aspect was missing" from the US strategy, Abadi said, "and that is the brain to be able to get all these together. I'm proposing to add an S for the DIME, and the S is for 'sound prediction,' that would forecast what is coming to happen in the future."

He said the current accumulation of threats was preventing the US-led coalition on the ground in Iraq from seeing "light again at the end of the tunnel."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060724/pl_afp/usiraqmilitary

[whistle]

1. Has Donald Rumsfeld come out and rebutted this claim with....

..."...this administration has given the commanders in Iraq everything they've asked for. So if the administration is failing, it is the military command which failed to ask for all they needed." I suspect that will be the official line from BuchCo.

[rodeodance]

4. where is that little minded man anyway--? Cheney surfaced but Rummy

seems to be nowhere.

[whistle]

6. Still buying and selling investments to positions long and short

...in the market. The economy is perfect for making billionaires out of all these guys.

[rodeodance]

2. just leave it at brain

"One aspect was missing" from the US strategy, Abadi said, "and that is the brain to be able to get all these together. I'm proposing to add an S for the DIME, and the S is for 'sound prediction,' that would forecast what is coming to happen in the future."

[rodeodance]

3. "the current US strategy lacked vision and had failed"---Wonder if the

WH will silence him somehow.

[saigon68]

5. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH