Comments on: Iraq Police Fixable After All http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:20:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bob http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/comment-page-1/#comment-250107 Bob Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:28:40 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/12/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/#comment-250107 I think the critical point in this is what we can dictate to the Iraqis is on the wane and dissolving the Iraqi Police is a non-starter. One of the problems of independent commissions is they are ungrounded. They can recommend starting with a clean slate. But that was never viable. CPATT looks to be focusing on the critical items - selcting, training, and promoting the good IPs and determining who is bad and removing them. As we stand down our forces we had better change where and what we focus on. I think the critical point in this is what we can dictate to the Iraqis is on the wane and dissolving the Iraqi Police is a non-starter. One of the problems of independent commissions is they are ungrounded. They can recommend starting with a clean slate. But that was never viable. CPATT looks to be focusing on the critical items - selcting, training, and promoting the good IPs and determining who is bad and removing them.

As we stand down our forces we had better change where and what we focus on.

]]> By: Anderson http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/comment-page-1/#comment-250098 Anderson Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:02:28 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/12/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/#comment-250098 It's just that there were all these typos in the commission report -- take out all the "nots" and it reads completely differently. It's just that there were all these typos in the commission report -- take out all the "nots" and it reads completely differently.

]]> By: Hal http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/comment-page-1/#comment-250097 Hal Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:52:48 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/12/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/#comment-250097 <em>The Surge is working and all that? </em> Or we have finished a major phase of ethnic cleansing that saw over 2 million people flee the country and another couple million displace internally. So now we have a segregated state after a few hundred thousand or so have been killed in a bloody civil war. Mission accomplished. The Surge is working and all that?

Or we have finished a major phase of ethnic cleansing that saw over 2 million people flee the country and another couple million displace internally. So now we have a segregated state after a few hundred thousand or so have been killed in a bloody civil war.

Mission accomplished.

]]> By: Triumph http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/comment-page-1/#comment-250079 Triumph Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:51:36 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/12/iraq_police_fixable_after_all/#comment-250079 We need to send Bernie Kerick back there to straighten things out. We need to send Bernie Kerick back there to straighten things out.

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