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Audit shows more problems with Iraqi security forces
In a report, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction highlights continuing difficulties accounting for Iraqi forces.
Alex Koppelman [2008-04-25]
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  • This sounds like...

    ...this report was the same as the ones written about the South Vietnamese government and army, modified by a quick find-and-replace to say "Iraq."

    -- paulpsd7
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    Friday, April 25, 2008 01:46 PM

  • Alex

    Have you heard the report about the Pentagon intentionally massively underreporting the numbers of suicide attempts among veterans?

    Just wondered & thought this was also interesting/disturbing.

    -- doloresflower
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    Friday, April 25, 2008 02:00 PM

  • Thanks for Posting this

    This is a worthwhile topic that little has been written on. The media still continues to push the lie that the surge has been a huge success and that we are making genuine progress. Violence is done, but there is little else to show for the huge sacrifices being made by our military and their families or the huge vats of cash and supplies we keep shipping into that sinkhole. Please, post more on subjects like this.

    -- dfield
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    Friday, April 25, 2008 02:49 PM

  • Does Nancy, Harry and Steny

    still want to approve more unconditional funding of the war? Time to put a tight leash on BushCo and demand some accountability.

    -- bdop4
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    Friday, April 25, 2008 02:58 PM

  • Spinning SuccessLleads to Failure

    The Bush/Cheney cabal, the GOP, the RNC, the MSM poodles, and Corporate poodles have been spinning their elusive success in Iraq from March 19--2003 to the present. They invaded Iraq with no real plan and came up with the adhoc Plan A that never changed until the summer of 2006 when sub-plan (a) was introduced--the surge. The temporary increase of the troops was to solve the problem and give the Iraqi government time to come together-they have not--there has been no other plan. We are spending $343,000,000 per day in Iraq and have spent $20,000,000,000 for training the Iraqi forces--some Sunni, predominately Shiite, and the Kurds. The USA is no better off there now than we were in the beginning. The USA cannot make the three basic groups in Iraq love each other. This war may be a gravy train for a few but the country and it's image in the world is continually declining. Spin all they want but that does not change the facts in Iraq. A mature adult human being faces up to the facts and accepts them, makes changes and moves on.

    -- ghostcommander
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    Friday, April 25, 2008 03:32 PM

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