Reading this article, the ING forces sound a lot like the ARVN.
I am afraid that at 140k troops in country, we are done, and fairly soon. The upcoming offensive could be the beginning of the end. Someone needs to take control of this sorry situation and either develop a strategy to win, or a strategy to leave.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6370525/site/newsweek/Both Bush and Kerry have plans that depend on newly trained Iraqis. But insurgents are killing recruits, and infiltrating the forces. A report from the front.
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Scarfe says he trusts Jassim implicitly—which is more than he can say for most Iraqi National Guardsmen, less-trained locals thought to be collaborating with the insurgents. "The ING guys usually slept outside during the summer," says Scarfe. "When they slept inside, you knew a mortar barrage was coming."
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Just as worrisome, the insurgents have managed to infiltrate Iraqi forces, enabling them to gain key intelligence. "The infiltration is all over, from the top to the bottom, from decision making to the lower levels," says the senior Iraqi official. In the Kirkush incident, the insurgents almost certainly had inside information about the departure time and route of the buses.