re-arm the army? why? a better question is where is the former iraqi army? the us scored a great intelligence victory before the war convincing the iraqi military to go home. however successful the intelligence operation, it was a stupid strategic decision based upon short term political reasoning. today, american soldiers are dying specifically because there are hundreds of thousands of former iraqi soldiers who went home with their AKs, rocket propelled grenades, morters, etc. wouldnt have made more sense to catch them on the battlefield, kill them and break their toys? isnt that what armies are supposed to do? now we are trying to control a heavily armed country with 150,000 soldiers. we probably need a minimum of 500,000 on the ground to disarm the iraqis. without doing so, no "nation-building" will ever occur. see also
http://www.deprogramprogram.com/wbswebpage.cfm?pagetextid=nofrontgetsaddam for a reasonable analysis...
They're getting the arms from thousands of weapons caches all over the country. Unlike our troops, the Iraqi army knew where to find them.