Reply #5: Hypocrisy [View All]

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ISG, page 9, says this about the Iraqi Army (reformatted sentences as bullet points):

• Units lack personnel.


• Soldiers are on leave one week a month so that they can visit their families and take them
  their pay.


• Soldiers are paid in cash because there is no banking system.


• Soldiers are given leave liberally and face no penalties for absence without leave.


• Unit readiness rates are low, often at 50 percent or less.

An earlier paragraph in the same section states that Iraqi soldiers are often unwilling to "redeploy to other areas of the country" as well as having refused orders to carry out some missions. Yet, there seem to be plenty of "insurgents" and "militia" that are in some continual state of apparent readiness.

Sounds like a case that it'd be better for U.S. soldiers to come home. Kucinich had or has such a plan.