Nevermind that our armed forces are spent. Oh, and al-Maliki now says there’s no civil war in Iraq. Riggghhttt!

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq and the United States are to spend 14 billion dollars and recruit 40,000 new soldiers into the Iraqi armed forces in the next 18 months, a US military commander said Sunday.

US army Lieutenant General Martin Dempsey, who is in charge of training Iraqi security forces, said that America will spend five billion dollars and the remaining nine billion would come from Iraqi coffers.

Dempsey said the plan is driven by how “the Iraqis want their security forces to look” in the future and and not just to “solve problems of today.”

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