NYT: Misjudgements Marred US Plans for Iraqi Police

[mod mom]

How much incompetence and looting of the coffers before these guys are thrown out?

LAW AND DISORDER
Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for Iraqi Police


By MICHAEL MOSS and DAVID ROHDE
Published: May 21, 2006
As chaos swept Iraq after the American invasion in 2003, the Pentagon began its effort to rebuild the Iraqi police with a mere dozen advisers. Overmatched from the start, one was sent to train a 4,000-officer unit to guard power plants and other utilities. A second to advise 500 commanders in Baghdad. Another to organize a border patrol for the entire country.

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Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner sent to Iraq in 2003 to lead the police mission, said Pentagon officials gave him just 10 days notice and little guidance.

"Looking back, I really don't know what their plan was," Mr. Kerik said. With no experience in Iraq, and little time to get ready, he said he prepared for his job in part by watching A&E Network documentaries on Saddam Hussein.

Field training of the Iraqi police, the most critical element of the effort, was left to DynCorp International, a company based in Irving, Tex., that received $750 million in contracts. The advisers, many of them retired officers from small towns, said they arrived in Iraq and quickly found themselves caught between poorly staffed American government agencies, company officials focused on the bottom line and thousands of Iraqi officers clamoring for help.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/world/middleeast/21security.html?ei=5090&en=8586285948332898&ex=1305864000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

[babylonsister]

1. Incompetence rules with this bunch. All that money in the coffers

of their partners in crime, and for what? Nothing has been accomplished.

[mod mom]

2. They have mired our nation with a huge debt while destroying our

infastructure and making the world much less stable. The only ones who have benefitted are their corporate cronies. These are robber barons and traitors and those who support them are complicit in their crimes.