He has more faith in these guys than I do.
Iraq's interim leader called for an immediate mobilization of the country's old army to help the Americans as ambush teams struck U.S. targets in the Sunni arc of resistance around Baghdad, killing two American soldiers.
The United States would ''speed the process of relieving the burden on its troops'' by recalling the disbanded Iraqi military, said Iyad Allawi, current president of the Iraqi Governing Council. The idea got a cool reception from Baghdad's U.S.-led occupation authorities.
''I don't think there's a vast swath of people out there who want to serve in the Iraqi army,'' said a well-placed official of the occupation authority, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Americans are slowly rebuilding a new Iraqi army, having trained only a 700-man battalion thus far.
Although given the level of unemployment in the country I disagree with that last statement. I'd bet there is lots of interest in just about any paying job.
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