Three years after George W. Bush promised he could win the war in Iraq by training Iraqi police, an independent committee formed by Congress and led by retired Marine General James Jones has determined that the Iraqi police force trained by the Americans is in such bad shape that the best way to deal with it is to dismantle it and start all over again. The committee found that the Iraqi police are infiltrated by insurgent groups, are plagued by corruption, and fail to even show up for work on one out of every three days.
The As-They-Stand-Up-We-Will-Stand-Down plan for victory is even more unrealistic now than it was back in 2004. It seems that George W. Bush has inculcated his own incompetence, corruption and laziness into the Iraqi police.
(Source: NPR, August 6, 2007)
