About 600 fighters and 16 leaders of the radical Shia militia, the Mehdi Army, have been nabbed in 52 operations over the last 45 days.
Before that, we've been killing al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgents over the last few years. And we've now trained over 300,000 Iraqi security forces.
IF the politicians would stay out of it and let them do their job, this war would have been over long ago.
Here's a military general explaining why he thinks it's important to have the Iraqi security forces doing their own work to combat the Shiite militias.
Sounds to me like the General is saying it's important military strategy to have a unified Iraqi military army (and police force) so that they can clean up their own fat-boy and Mahdi Army mess. Maybe you missed it but this operation was lead by Iraqi Security forces. Perhaps that explains the wait to you
Perhaps, you should stay out of it and let the Generals do their job.
About 600 fighters and 16 leaders of the radical Shia militia, the Mehdi Army, have been nabbed in 52 operations over the last 45 days.
Before that, we've been killing al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgents over the last few years. And we've now trained over 300,000 Iraqi security forces.
IF the politicians would stay out of it and let them do their job, this war would have been over long ago.
Here's a military general explaining why he thinks it's important to have the Iraqi security forces doing their own work to combat the Shiite militias.
Brig. Gen. Terry Wolff:In 2006, we made significant strides in force generation and all components of the Iraqi military. The Iraqi security force currently sits at 327,000 trained and equipped policemen and Iraqi military. ...I don’t think you can overstate the importance of the institution of the army as a unifying institution in Iraq, when you have people who come from all over the nation and now put on a common uniform and serve together. Sounds to me like the General is saying it's important military strategy to have a unified Iraqi military army (and police force) so that they can clean up their own fat-boy and Mahdi Army mess. Maybe you missed it but this operation was lead by Iraqi Security forces. Perhaps that explains the wait to you
Perhaps, you should stay out of it and let the Generals do their job.
BEFORE you jump into anything, you should KNOW what the discussion is about! I put MY words that YOU quoted back to ME (ABOVE) in black so you could READ them again. Since you obviously didn't read them or if you did, you didn't comprehend what they said, I'm going to explain it to you.
I said KILLED, and you said captured. I am clearly talking about KILLING insurgents, and YOU are talking about capturing them. THAT was NOT the subject of this thread.
I AGREE that the Iraqi's need to step up and protect their own country and do the POLICE work that our troops are doing now.
Perhaps, you should stay out of it until you KNOW what we're talking about.