You can't compare our experience after Pearl Harbor with the situation in Iraq. We were able to plug our people into an existing and functional organizational framework. It was just a matter of expanding it. The Iraqis are constructing a new, modern military from the gound up. It is not only a matter of training, but also the development of doctrine and logistical institutions to support it.
Kabar, I think you are 100 % correct.
But it is something the defeatists just don't get. Or maybe they don't want to get it.