US plans to reassign troops in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BA2DC20D-A128-490A-8845-50EDF624F556.htm

US military commanders are planning to reassign thousands of US troops in Iraq to advise and train Iraqi military units, officials say.


The plan is to transfer up to a brigade, or about 5000 soldiers, to the training role, they were quoted as saying by the New York Times, adding that many more would be assigned adviser jobs.


To compensate for the loss of fighting power, one officer said, commanders intend to put the Iraqi units they train in the field.


"It will be a process of 'train-fight-train'," the officer said

[Gin]

1. a couple hundred Naval reservists left the other day for Iraq

from here...Virginia Beach.....and the news about it was that they were surprised they were going into combat. So thats another means of compensating.

[hadrons]

3. looks like that Bush vote really worked out for them ....

this is just PR, but this PR is going to get people killed

BTW, the proir breaking thread just before this one is titled: Four out of 10 desert new security force when under fire

[leftchick]

5. I noticed that irony as well

as I was posting this morning. Irony abounds in this misadventure. It is too bad so many people are getting killed in the process.

:(

[peacebird]

8. Hi Gin

I'm from Va Bch also - or at least grew up there, folks are there still.

Naval reservists being deployed for combat? :wtf: What's up with that? Navy guys aren't really trained for street to street combat missions, at least not when my son went through training in 2000...

[Gin]

10. that was their reaction too...on the news............numbers are

down for the Guard..............so...they will use the other reservists. Nothing is safe anymore.

[dbt]

2. Rearranging deck chairs on Titanic.

It was midnight on the sea,
The band was playing 'Nearer, My God, To Thee,'
Fare thee well, Titanic,
Fare thee well.

:freak:
dbt

[Lost4words]

4. I'm not gonna make rope no more.

Nice to see Jamie Brockets words, and they fit so well!

86 43

[dbt]

6. Suddenly, the Captain's eyes burst WIDE open!

He grabbed the wheel with both hands, looked right at the iceberg and screamed, "I'm gonna MOVE you, baby!"

:smoke:
dbt

[Lost4words]

7. Jack Johnson was a fortunate man in this case!

Bon Voyage!

Too cool dbt! Thanks for the early morning laugh :hi: :toast: :smoke:

[cliss]

9. Love the post.

How fitting. As we drive into the abyss, looking not backwards, but not forward either. If we would only take a look back at what's been done, we would surely know what to expect from the future.

Cliss shakes an American by the shoulder, "wake up. Your dream is about to end".

[tabasco]

11. Right on schedule.

After the "elections", US forces will be redeployed to guard oil facilities. Complete responsibility for law and order in Iraqi cities will be given to the Iraqi police. US forces will ensure the oil flows to pay the war profiteering corporations. That is the reason we are there.