Tell me again why we’re still there? We know we went there on a lie. Why are we there? These people are not going to meet any benchmarks……it’s not going to happen. We’ve been “training” Iraqis for four years and gone nowhere but downhill in terms of any progress. So they voted. So they set up a government. So friggin what. That means nothing. We are training them, giving them weapons and equipment and where’s it all ending up?????

More than three years and $15 billion into the U.S. effort to rebuild Iraqi forces, “ghost soldiers” still help fill Iraq’s army ranks and no one knows how many trained policemen remain on the job, the Pentagon and U.S. government investigators report.

The Government Accountability Office says the most serious problems lie in the logistics - supplies, maintenance, transport - of Iraqi security forces. One example: The police have more than 1,000 U.S.-made trucks whose computerized systems are beyond the skills of the Iraqi mechanics who repair them.

Since soon after the 2003 U.S. invasion, the training of new military and police forces has been presented as vital to the U.S. military’s handing over the counterinsurgency fight to the Iraqis.

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