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Apr. 12th, 2004 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holzman_tweedThis story doesn't seem to be getting much play, but it's kind of important:
Yet one more way Bush's cunning plan for Iraq wasn't thought out so good: The idea was that the troops would come home at the end of June, and the Iraqi army would be under the command of American generals. If I was the generals in question, images of an Iraqi gibbet or firing squad might be costing me some sleep right about now.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan (remember Afghanistan?), thugs Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Mohammed are fighting in the north, apparently having misplaced the memo that they're supposed to be part of the new "government." Dostum is so unclear on that whole "government" think, that he sent "President" Karzai's "Governor" of the province.
Bush-Cheney in 2004: Perpetuating the spirit of the Viet Nam Veteran before the first batch dies out.
WASHINGTON, (AFP) - A battalion of the new Iraqi army refused to go to Fallujah earlier this week to support US Marines battling for control of the city, The Washington Post reports.
Citing senior US Army officers in Baghdad, the newspaper said the incident is casting new doubt on US plans to transfer security matters to Iraqi forces.
The 620-man 2nd Battalion of the Iraqi Armed Forces refused to fight Monday after members of the unit were shot at in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Baghdad while en route to Fallujah, said The Post, quoting US Army Major General Paul Eaton.
The convoy then turned around and returned to the battalion's base in Taji, north of the Iraqi capital.
The paper quotes Eaton as saying members of the battalion insisted that they "did not sign up to fight Iraqis."
The general, who is overseeing the development of Iraqi security forces, declined to characterize the incident as a mutiny, but rather called it "a command failure," the report said.
Yet one more way Bush's cunning plan for Iraq wasn't thought out so good: The idea was that the troops would come home at the end of June, and the Iraqi army would be under the command of American generals. If I was the generals in question, images of an Iraqi gibbet or firing squad might be costing me some sleep right about now.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan (remember Afghanistan?), thugs Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Mohammed are fighting in the north, apparently having misplaced the memo that they're supposed to be part of the new "government." Dostum is so unclear on that whole "government" think, that he sent "President" Karzai's "Governor" of the province.
Bush-Cheney in 2004: Perpetuating the spirit of the Viet Nam Veteran before the first batch dies out.