[SandRat]

[zarf]

We are training Fatboy Sadr's new army.

[mylife]

“The (U.S.) military is not going to win this war, nor should we expect the military to win the war,” she said.

It isn’t that Fast is a defeatist, but she was taking a realistic approach.

“The whole thing is going to be won and decided by the Iraqi people,” Fast said. “That’s what is going to dictates success.”

Fast is correct in a way. now...lets watch the iraqis as we give them rope

[Marine_Uncle]

"What I saw were really motivated Iraqis,” she said, adding those in training ranged in rank from junior noncommissioned officers to a lieutenant colonel."
Quite interesting article. It is only a matter of time. The alliance has been forged. They shall see how much better off they are under US and Brit guidance then the Russkians.

[truth_seeker]

"Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast said the center also is preparing a cultural training video for the Army that will include a recent interview with the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations."

Somehow a two-star named Babs, doing the cultural training video doesn't make me feel particularly safer.

Everybody bitching about us getting about Iraq should look to Germany, Japan and Korea.

We are still there, it didn't start out with perfect peace on day one. But it is peaceful now.

[Calpernia]

A few Iraqi officers will come to this Southern Arizona Army post early next year for intelligence training, the commander of the Intelligence Center said Thursday.

Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast said the center also is preparing a cultural training video for the Army that will include a recent interview with the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations.