Friday, June 13, 2003

I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF WE'LL BE TRAINING THEM. You can do worse than receive training from the best military force on the planet. And one would think those who had their butts handed to them by the Marines and the 3d ID might just be impressed enough to pay attention.
The task of building a new Iraqi military will get under way in the next few weeks at selected training and recruiting sites, the American administrator of Iraq said yesterday.

Speaking over a satellite video hookup from Baghdad, Paul Bremer said the project will serve not only to restore a necessary element of Iraq's long-term security but also address the short-term problem of hundreds of thousands of former Iraqi soldiers being without work since the war.

The rest is here.

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