Hopes of early handover to Iraqis unrealistic

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Hopes of early handover to Iraqis unrealistic

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LONDON (AFP) -
Iraq's police force is not likely to be ready to take over responsibility for security in the country within a year, The Times reported citing unnamed American soldiers and officials in Baghdad.


The report comes a day after Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh said that nearly half of the country's provinces will be under Iraqi control by the end of this year, and a British official said at the weekend that Iraqi soldiers and police will be ready to take over security from coalition troops within a year.

"Iraqis are on their own timetable," an unidentified high-ranking American officer overseeing police training in the Iraqi capital told The Times.

"They are fighting a war, but I'm not always sure they are fighting it. We train them to do checkpoints, patrols, cordon and knock searches, but it fails in the execution.

"There's probably twenty of them at a checkpoint but you'll only see three actually working it," he said.

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1. There is no such thing as an 'early' anything over there. We've been

there longer than we fought against Germany in WWII. We are WAY PAST 'early'. Lying frauds.

And as for the Iraqis, they won't take over anything. Why should they? They people that destroyed their country and their way of life are there to do it for them.

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2. Hard to change a history of people in a few years.

One wonders what Bush and Co. were thinking. Everyone know we have to have control of our police and they come from our own society. Give guns and power to police and over people and they must be under control. You just do not make American police out of Iraq people over night. I think Bush and Co. see the results of what happened in Germany and Japan and for gets the work it took to get to that, plus they never think how it did not work most places we went. It is reading history in only the parts you want to hear. This seems to be a pattern of Bush's life. Things are easy and go his way. Even his father knew better. One seems to for get that von Bismark made Germany one county long before the turn of the century and it was the next turn of the century before it got back to that stage. We, as Am. should have been happy that the Turks and people of Lebanon were voting on some of the ways they were to be govt. and not try to force our way of doing things on these people in the Middle East. Course that is my view of things.