EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: Training Iraqis no longer focus of U.S. policy. |
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In a reversal, U.S. reliance on Iraqi army is fading
Reversal? That's what one calls a FAILURE. <--- comment mine.
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Training troops is no longer a priority, changing the role of American forces.
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON | Military planners have abandoned the idea that shaping up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to soon start coming home.
They now think that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
Training Iraqi troops, which had been the cornerstone of the Bush administration�s Iraq policy since 2005, has dropped in priority, officials in Baghdad and Washington said... |
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