US general already asked for more Iraqi troops. Most went AWOL

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/22/news/assess.php

News Analysis: U.S. forces in Iraq said to lack fallback

By Michael R. Gordon The New York Times

Published: October 22, 2006


BAGHDAD After three years of trying to thwart a potent insurgency and tamp down the deadly violence in Iraq, the American military is playing its last hand: The Baghdad Security Plan.

The plan will be tweaked, adjusted and modified in the weeks ahead, as American commanders attempt to reverse the dismaying increase in murders, drive-by shootings and bombings.

But military commanders here see no plausible alternative to their bedrock strategy of clearing violence-ridden neighborhoods of militias, insurgents and arms caches, holding them with Iraqi and American security forces and winning over the population and generating jobs with reconstruction projects, primarily programs underwritten by the Iraq government. There is no winning fall-back plan that the generals are holding in their hip pockets. This is it. snip


So far, the plan has been short on resources, as well as results. The Iraqi Defense Ministry has supplied only two of the six Iraqi Army battalions that Thurman has requested. It is not just a question of numbers. Some in the U.S. military believe that the Iraqi Army may be more effective than the police and more trusted by local citizens. Yet several Iraqi battalions have gone AWOL rather than follow the orders to go to Baghdad, according to American military officials. In the case of these divisions, summoning them to the Iraqi capital was tantamount to demobilizing the units.

[Monkeyman]

1. taken leasons from Bush

[MadMaddie]

2. Yea ..he took being AWOL to a new form didn't he?

Pathetic Coward that one..

[KoKo]

3. Iraqi Battalions....subjected to Suicide Bombs and attacks from families.

If I lived in Iraq now would I urge any of my family...extended family to sign up for Iraqi Police to help the Americans?

NO WAY........!!!! To be KILLED????