80% DESERTERS: IS THIS ANY WAY TO RUN AN ARMY?Seems the U.S. military is having a bit of a problem keeping its new Iraqi recruits. 80% are taking off. The Iraqis just can't get used to taking up arms against their neighbors.
What do you expect when the U.S. only spent $1.2 Billion "developing" them? A drop in the bucket compared to the $200 Billion already spent on the doomsday occupation force from the U.S.
If you remember, one of Ambassador Paul "Jerry" Bremer's first official acts as the incoming dictator was to fire the entire 500,000 member heavily armed military. Not a smart idea.
Baghdad Bremer.
Going back a bit in occupation history, frankly only 4 months, then commander of the U.S. Army's 1st. Armored Division in charge of Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Martin Dempsey, stated a wonderful psycho-military babble explanation when he acknowledged that the Iraqi's were increasingly in "a form of descending consent"
These new Iraqi Graduates Seem Pretty, Well, Strange.
Now, even the U.S.'s Government Accounting Office, the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, sees a problem as stated in a recent report.
The GAO's report details how the Iraqi forces were not trained to fight an "enemy" that uses rocket-propelled grenades and heavy weapons. What else has the world been watching in nearly every clip from Iraq: rocket-propelled grenades and heavy weapons.
Also, out of the 2 remaining "soldiers " out of ten, those two are usually working against the interests of the U.S.
So, what were they trained to do? Who knows.
But General Dempsey became philosophical back in April when he said "history is going to decide whether that (Bremer's mass military firings) was right or not."
Catch up on Iraqi desertion in the following articles:
The 80 Percenters
Spring Time Deserters
Regards,
Charlie
