Most Baghdad security under Iraqi control: US report

[Barrett808]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The ranks of Iraqi-trained security personnel grew by nearly 30,000 since April and now control more than half of Baghdad and large swathes of the countryside, a quarterly State Department report to Congress said.

The number of Iraqi-trained security personal was more than double that of US soldiers stationed there -- 268,400 as of June 26, compared with 127,000 current US troops -- the quarterly report said.

It stressed, however, that the figures still did not point to a timetable for a US troop withdrawal. The war began more than three years ago.

"Arbitrary deadlines or timetables for withdrawal -- divorced from conditions in Iraq and the region -- would be a strategic error as this would suggest to the enemy they can simply wait to win," the report said.

"No war has ever been won on a timetable, and neither will this one be."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060708/wl_afp/usiraqsecurity

[still_one]

1. this war won't be won period

how can you win an occupation?

[Teaser]

2. "control" should be in quotes

nt

[onehandle]

3. No kidding. Baghdad is Fortress America. nt

[niyad]

4. , so going by their numbers, there are roughly 400,000 military/security

forces in baghdad, and they STILL cannot bring it under control? that doesn't exactly make me feel any better than I am sure the residents of baghdad feel.

[leftchick]

5. They meant Iraqi Militias

lol! What a fucking joke. A sad, sick and twisted one, but a joke none the less.

[Alacrat]

6. Let em' have it, and bring em' home

If there are so many Iraqi militia, why can't our guys come home? The Iraqis will either sink or swim, I say we leave their fate up to them, and get the hell out of there.

[leftchick]

8. yes indeed

and leave them a few billion we would have spent as partial compensation for the horror we have brought them.

[madrchsod]

7. one word---bushshit