Iraqi Training Botched By U.S.

    In remarks made ready for his talk Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Rep. Lee Hamilton :

"The police training system has not gone well."  This is in regards to the training of the Iraqi police and their army.

    The training has been screwed up by the United States because the job was given to the wrong agencies to complete the task.

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

January 31,2007

The U.S. erred by first assigning the task of shaping the judicial system in a largely lawless country to the State Department and private contractors who "did not have the expertise or the manpower to get the job done," Hamilton and Meese said in testimony obtained by The Associated Press.

Justice Department officials, they said, should lead the work of transforming the system. Police executives and supervisors should replace the military police personnel now assigned.

The recommendations about the Iraqi judicial system were included in the Iraq Study Group's report last year, but got little attention. Hamilton and Meese said Wednesday that unless the U.S. helps create a capable, trained professional police force and functioning criminal justice system, "ordinary Iraqis will not live in peace and will not have confidence in their new government."

"Long-term security depends as much on the Iraqi police and judicial system as the Iraqi Army," they testified. Entire Article.

   I would like to know who the idiot was that did all of this bad assigning in the first place.

 

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