How can you "win the peace" when half of the Iraqi police are corrupt?

[Blue_Roses]

This from a reporter who was held hostage. Bush keeps saying that they are "training" Iraqi police, but there is never any mention of how corrupt many are. This very interesting interview with Scott Taylor, a Canadian reporter, tells more:

"CD: But you didn't get the sense of a qualitative difference at the beginning of this trip compared to previous ones, i.e., in terms of danger or the way you were treated by locals?

ST: The fatal mistake was in not knowing that the U.S.-trained Iraqi police were in collusion with the resistance."

--snip--

"ST: Everywhere we went, it was obvious that the militants had the full cooperation of the U.S.-trained Iraqi police. Whenever we transited outside the city, to the corners of Mosul or the checkpoints, the cops would see us bound in the back seats – and offer cigarettes to our captors! We'd be flanked by these gauntlets of teenage boys, cheering and banging on the roofs. It was clear that there's a lot of cooperation between Arab police and Turkmen fundamentalists.

At one point, our Turkmen captors handed us off to some young and violent Arab "pupils," so they could go back to Tal Afar for more fighting. There was coordination with local police, of course, but interestingly enough the resistance group at that house included Arab fundamentalists and senior Ba'athists. My co-prisoners, the Turkish journalist and an Iraqi Arab, a driver for UNICEF, knew the languages being spoken so I learned what was going on."

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http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=3606

[DrWeird]

1. By their very nature they are enemy collaboraters.

I'd be surprised if only half are corrupt.

[bryant69]

2. Look actually training cops not to be corrupt

takes money. And we all know that the Bush Presidency is 100% committed to protecting that tax cut. So you really shouldn't expect much more than the minimum.

Emmanual Ravelli (played by Chico Marx) - "How much you gonna pay us? You know it's-a very hard work to not steal anything."
Lady Fancy Pants - "Will you take Ten Dollars; I believe that should be adequate."
Raveilli - "I had to quit my last job for taking ten dollars"
- The Marx Brothers "Flywhell, Shyster, and Flywheel"

Bryant
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[DulceDecorum]

3. They are not corrupt,

they are IRAQI.
And they are intent on dragging Bush's drunken junky nose through the deserts of Iraq.

Why should Iraqi cops follow the dictates of a man thousands of miles away who stole an election and has destroyed his nation and theirs?

If the Iraqi cops support the invaders,
the terrorists win.

[Blue_Roses]

4. with all due respect

"If the Iraqi cops support the invaders,
the terrorists win.":shrug:

This sentence makes no sense. It's the Iraqi's country, not ours. Why wouldn't it be in the best interest of the Iraqi people to try and salvage what's left of it for their own living? The faster they get trained and start defending their own country, the faster we get out of there.

[DrWeird]

5. Yeah, it's kind of like the Vichy French.

The Resistance should have just given up and started working with their liberators. You know, to defend the country from invasion.

[killbotfactory]

6. Almost this entire administration is corrupt

To them it's standard operating procedure. What's the big deal?