As Iraqis stand up, U.S. will close their training schools.
By on Oct 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
As Iraqis stand up, U.S. will close their training schools.
“The Bush administration plans to shut down a highly successful Iraqi police academy in Jordan even as security in Iraq worsens,” the New York Daily News reports. By orders of the State Department, which wants to move all training centers to Iraq, the Jordan-based academy “will stop training Iraqi police recruits this year.” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called the closure “mystifying and maddening.”
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OK, here’s the questions then. How many were trained at this facility? How many are trained outside of Iraq? Will the facilities inside Iraq be able to handle the increase. And most importantly, will this facility not have excrement seeping from the ceiling?
October 12th, 2006 at 12:04 pmWouldn’t common sense dictate that, waiting until after the Baghdad Police College, was, you know, built before shifting trainees to it?
October 12th, 2006 at 12:07 pmThe reason? We don’t ever want to leave Iraq. If we leave, Halliburton stops getting their pork and the other military suppliers get shut off from the gravy train. Can’t have that can we?
October 12th, 2006 at 12:09 pmDidn’t we also just ‘terminate’ a 1,000 ‘trained’ police for misuse of power & duty?
October 12th, 2006 at 12:11 pmWhere were they ‘trained’?
Do they teach beheading in the training?
How to make IED’s?
I’m not generally one of those conspiracy theorists who think that the Bush administration is deliberately encouraging the insurgency to ensure a permanent American force in Iraq, but this decision is truly puzzling. What logical explanation could there possibly be for shutting down this facility?
October 12th, 2006 at 12:13 pm“The Bush administration plans to shut down a highly successful Iraqi police academy in Jordan even as security in Iraq worsens,â€
“This administration will not tolerate success. Now watch this drive.” -GWB
October 12th, 2006 at 12:17 pmI’ll take a swing at the explanation. Since the training facility is probably (and I say probably because I don’t know for sure) being run for-profit, my guess is that moving it to Iraq has less regulation and less tax burdon for the corporation that is running it, therefore, greater profits. It’s the only thing that makes sense. Jordon probably has higher corporate tax rates than the flat 30% in Iraq.
Again, I’m just guessing.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:23 pmYou could get Frank Drebbin to run a more successful ‘Police Academy’ than these clowns have.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:31 pmI’d guess that these police trainees will begin the process of learning how to emulate standing up somewhere in the third or fourth decade of this century.
I remember someone posting a story about how the Bechtel-built academy was falling to the ground and rendered mostly useless anyway.
I’ll see if I can find the link….
October 12th, 2006 at 12:33 pmBut the mark of a great presidency is not eloquence. It is not great delivery of speeches. It is results and the inspiration the president gives to the nation. In that sense, it cannot be denied that Dubya has been a great president.Comment by Exley — October 12, 2006 @ 12:04 pm
October 12th, 2006 at 12:33 pmHere’s my guess – an increasing number of Iraqis that have the good fortune to get enrolled in this college might arrive in Jordan and decide they don’t want to go back to Iraq.
And you wouldn’t blame them.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:33 pmIt is obvious that the Iraqi government wants to provide more realistic conditions for the trainees, like being killed on the way to class.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:35 pmI think this is roughly the same story, but this is the one I recall being posted previously.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092702134.html
October 12th, 2006 at 12:38 pmUmmm, okay, what happened, TP? Did I violate some term of agreement?
The link was here, and now it’s gone. I posted a second one, so we’ll see if that sticks.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:39 pmThere is A LOT of money to be made off of the instability in the MiddleEast.
Ren,
Cut it out:
“It is results and the inspiration the president gives to the nation.” Comment by Exley
Yes, its has been so long since the American people have been so inspired to distrust their government and what “results” are being referred to?
-9/11?
-the Deficit?
-Iraq?
-North Korea?
-Katrina?
-the trashing of the Constitution?
If you insist on licking the President’s balls, use your own tongue.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:46 pmDumb Fox
October 12th, 2006 at 12:46 pmAre these recruits cutting and running??
Insurgents are blowing up police academies in Iraq so it makes sense to George Bush to move them from Jordon to Iraq???
October 12th, 2006 at 12:48 pmMaybe Jordan dosen’t want US and Iraqis on their soil.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:51 pm#15 June, It’s an Exley post I saw and almost sh*t…. Please don’t think it was something I would say…
October 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pmRen,
My bad. (good call, by the way. I couldn’t believe it either)
October 12th, 2006 at 1:03 pmThere was a point, a couple of years ago, when Bush was asking Nations of the world for more help in Iraq. When several offered to train Iraqis outside of Iraq, he told them “no”. He then turned around and told us that we aren’t leaving until they are trained.
Got permanent bases?
October 12th, 2006 at 1:04 pmI’m not generally one of those conspiracy theorists who think that the Bush administration is deliberately encouraging the insurgency to ensure a permanent American force in Iraq, but this decision is truly puzzling.
Comment by Jim — October 12, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
I am with you on this one, Jim. The way these ass clowns have screwed things up royally, yet continue to find new ways to make matters worse, sure does make it look like they are determined to fail.
October 12th, 2006 at 1:41 pmThe war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be fought. Presidential Power is at its zenith during war-time.
Exley, are you trying to establish an insanity defense?
October 12th, 2006 at 1:44 pm“As Iraqis stand up, we will close their training schools.”
I’m just glad to see liberals finally admitting that the Iraqis are indeed standing up!
October 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pmI’m just glad to see liberals finally admitting that the Iraqis are indeed standing up!
Comment by Mark+Glesne — October 12, 2006 @ 1:45 pm
Yeah, Mark, and 70% of them want us gone. Yesterday. So when they “stand up”, who do you think they will stand up against? Why do you think we won’t give them any decent weapons, and why do you think the Iraqi “army” is under constant close supervision by U.S. military officers?
October 12th, 2006 at 1:57 pmYes, they are standing up. They are either standing up and taking part in sectarian killing or they are standing up and running from sectarian killing. It is what us liberals and other members of reality call civil war.
October 12th, 2006 at 2:02 pmEverything in Iraq is a mess thanks to Dubya Dunce Decider Despot > nothing Bush does there surprises me anymore! Time to pull all the troops out > Iraq is a cesspool of violence and will never get better!
October 12th, 2006 at 2:09 pmWell I would hope they want us gone. I would worry more about a country that didn’t want us to leave – shows there is hope for them after all.
We give them decent weapons, just not as good of weapons as we have. This is what we have done throughout our history as a nation. It’s othing new, but still just as smart.
Of course the IAs are under the supervision of our officers. Our troops are under supervision by our officers and Iraqis are also under the supervision of their own officers.
This isn’t rocket science.
That hasn’t been my experience at all – in fact I experienced just the opposite. But I digress… I suppose your view of the war from the comfort of your couch is much more insightful.
=)
October 12th, 2006 at 6:08 pmtypos annoy me… *othing = nothing
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