[DoughtyOne]

In most instances a "proper retirement" would involve a firing squad. Perhaps they should crawl back under their rock.

[TexasTransplant]

How about their heads in a box?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

First signs of the "ENTITLEMENT CULT"!
Nip it in the bud, shoot the barstards!

[Zeroisanumber]

Iraq’s army was dissolved in a controversial stupid, shortsighted move by US overseer Paul Bremer after US-led forces invaded the country in 2003.

[A CA Guy]

Have the hundred form their own little unit and put them at the front of any fighting to remove terrorist.
If they are willing to fight for Iraq, fine. If they are bad, you shoot them.

[TADSLOS]

Give them a new job digging up mass graves with their bare hands.

[hermgem]

After we got into Iraq, there was a General Gardner who wanted to do exactly what we're trying to do now.
Recall how these former Hussein army people stood in line to get their promised pay, yes promised, and then got kicked and insulted by Bremer.
Gardner was originally in, his plan was to de- Husseinize the Iraqi Army and start with and from a solid internal defense base.
In between came Sec. of State Powell and his State Department who won out over Rumsfeld and Gen. Gardner.
State came in with this instant democracy scheme to be implemented along the lines of fancy thinking of Powell's State Department.
State, Bremer and then Powell had to disappear first to make room for a new and very difficult renewal out of Powell's, Bremer's, and State's, ashes.
P.S. Yes the same Powell who actively prevented us from going right trough to Baghdad in the first Gulf war using as an excuse that our allies would not be following the U.S. Army to Baghdad.

[fish hawk]

When the company goes bankrupt, there is no retirement or pensions.

[LibKill]

These criminals need hanging.

[Richard Axtell]

Something to remember: Imagine if we had invaded from the Turkei front, from the north? We didn't, remember? The Iraqi army distintigrated as much as it was disbanded, and melted into the desert. Had we been able to catch it in the originally planned vise, things would have been quite different. But, Turkei decided not to let us invade Iraq through their territory, so, here we are.

[endthematrix]

War just ain't what it used to be...