On 8/29/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I guess they'll need to send more US troops. Large numbers of Iraqi
> > soldiers and police are refusing to deploy to Baghdad.
On 8/29/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's news to me. How "large"?
August 28, 2006/New York TIMES
Group of Iraqi Soldiers Refuses to Go to Baghdad
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
<snip>
Partly because many soldiers have gone AWOL, the day-to-day
strength of the two Iraqis divisions in that province are,
respectively, 35 percent and 50 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/middleeast/28cnd-military.html
It's good news that the problems of AWOL, desertion, etc. have hardly
been solved.
It has been reported that "[a]n average Iraqi soldier makes around
$317 per month" and that there is no military hospital for wounded
Iraqi soldiers (Ben Gilbert, "An Army Where Wounded Soldiers Are on
Their Own: Iraqi Recruits Can't Go to a Military Hospital -- There Is
None," San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 2006,
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/10/MNG29JC44U1.DTL>).
No wonder they are not motivated. :->
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