‘Iraqi security forces lose equivalent of NYPD in 18 months.’
Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey yesterday told a congressional committee that approximately 18,000 members of the U.S.-trained Iraqi police “had been lost from the newly trained force of 188,000 in the 18 months before January. … Between eight to 10,000 are believed killed in action and six to 8,000 more have been wounded severely enough so they cannot serve. Dempsey also says possibly 13,000 more have deserted or are unaccounted for.”
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“We’re makin’ good progress”
June 13th, 2007 at 4:08 pmIs the Iraqi police force in its last throes?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:09 pmThis could be considered a surge.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:10 pmAlbeit in the wrong direction, but alas,
every action has an equal and opposite reaction……………
Equivalent of the NYPD? Oh, then Rudy will no doubt have the answer to this problem. Or maybe he’ll just defer to Bernie Kerik.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:10 pmThey stand up, we stand down. Stand up, stand down. Up, down.
Get it?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:13 pm18, 000 Iraqis stand down and the U.S. sends in 20,000 more Americans to stand up. Purge and surge.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:13 pmThe Iraqis didn’t get chocolates and flowers from the U.S. I guess.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:15 pmFreedom’s untidy and stuff happens.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:19 pmSee, this is the liberal media at work. You only hear about teh eight-to-ten thousand police officers killed and six-to-eight thousand disabled. You never hear about the Iraqi police officer who rescues a kitten from a tree or the one who buys a lost little Iraqi boy and ice cream cone.
Sheesh.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:21 pmspit take #9,
Perfect!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:26 pmFreedom’s untidy and stuff happens.
Comment by Damian — June 13, 2007 @ 4:19 pm
Does that excuse make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:29 pmDo you think we’ll run out of Iraqi’s before we run out of Rightards?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:29 pmWe are making progress in Iraq. Stay the course!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:34 pmSpudge, I guess Damian is being ironic. (Lets hope)
June 13th, 2007 at 4:38 pmThey’re taking their guns with them too, which they are putting to good use.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:40 pm#9 - spit take
Brilliant!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:44 pm10,000 dead… that should be awful.
They may be fathers. Leaving women and children without them.
But really… I don’t care about a single Iraqi. They’re all religious nuts, and I continue to hope for a way to nuke the entire middle east without a backlash of some kind.
I know that’d be impossible, so I don’t have my hopes up. But it’s nice to dream.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:48 pmBut really… I don’t care about a single Iraqi. They’re all religious nuts, and I continue to hope for a way to nuke the entire middle east without a backlash of some kind.
I know that’d be impossible, so I don’t have my hopes up. But it’s nice to dream.
Comment by Anonymous By Choice — June 13, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
I’m guessing that you’re a Hitler idolater too, eh? Can’t get enough killing can you?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:53 pmIf we’re supposed to “stand down when they stand up”, then what are we supposed to do when they subsequently fall down, fall up?
June 13th, 2007 at 4:57 pm“They’re all religious nuts”
That is like somebody in the Middle East thinking we are all like you. That would be just plain stupid, because Bush and his followers only make up 28% of the country.
June 13th, 2007 at 5:11 pmbeep
June 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pmBut really… I don’t care about a single Iraqi. They’re all religious nuts, and I continue to hope for a way to nuke the entire middle east without a backlash of some kind.
I know that’d be impossible, so I don’t have my hopes up. But it’s nice to dream.
Comment by Anonymous By Choice
Wow. You’re a sick f*ck.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:10 pmThe Iraqi army, if you will, deadenders in their last throes…
June 13th, 2007 at 6:32 pmABC,
Zooey is right, you are one sick f*ck. Why don’t you do us all a favor and go spoil the pelt please?
June 13th, 2007 at 6:36 pmThis just in from Captain Obvious:
Comment by Anonymous By Choice Good choice, Nazi by Choice.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:03 pmbeep beep
June 13th, 2007 at 9:03 pm” I don’t care about a single Iraqi. They’re all religious nuts.”
And you don’t think Amurika has a bunch of religious nuts? Why, golly gee, they’re in constant contact with the “deciderloadofcrap.” Do you forget that God “called him to invade”? Now there’s a religious wacko-nut case!
June 13th, 2007 at 10:38 pmIraq never really had a history of religious stupidity until now. America on the other hand has been riddled with insane religious morons for many many years.
June 14th, 2007 at 12:56 amThese numbers are STAGGERING! Is this for real!!?
June 14th, 2007 at 5:33 amI don’t care about a single U.S. soldier. They’re mercenaries for ExxonMobil. They’ve brought a HOLOCAUST to innocent Iraqis, 600,000 of whom have died as a result of Bush’s lust for oil. I happen to believe that killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people for a “steady energy supply” is about as evil a reason to kill people as the reasons Adolph Hitler used. Our troops are NOT heroes… they are perpetrating a horrific evil in Iraq.
June 14th, 2007 at 5:35 amI only care about the innocents. That’ it for me.
June 14th, 2007 at 5:36 am“But really… I don’t care about a single Iraqi. They’re all religious nuts, and I continue to hope for a way to nuke the entire middle east without a backlash of some kind.”
I hate religion. and I think it is a real contributing problem, if not the problem. But I never dreamed the answer was annihilating those I disagree with. That kind of thinking is a problem larger than religious zealotry, IMHO.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:50 amDanB
June 14th, 2007 at 8:52 amall religion is a history of religious stupidity. Believing in Tinkerbell, and all the rest of that crap, is stupidity. Believing from NEED and not facts is stupid. Simply stupid. There, here, and everywhere.
God hates humans
June 14th, 2007 at 2:05 pm