This story pissed me off
Iraqi police officers voluntarily turned over their weapons to members of al-Sadr’s representatives in the Madhi Army.
If you were to surrender like this in the US military and were later caught they would probably charge you with treason. They would court martial you and shoot you. I’ve read quite a few stories about Iraqis taking more of a lead and asking for less help. In the past they would often run at the first sign of danger and leave it all to the coalition forces to do the dirty work. Lately, they’ve been able to do much more with less of our help. They are constrained by supply problems and a lack of air support - if we could get them more of what they needed and provide them with on time air support until their military is able to take over it would help them out quite a bit. When police officers surrender like this it absolutely pisses me off. Why the hell am I in your country when you don’t even want to fight?
This is a bunch of shenanigans and its got to stop.
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May 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
yep I’ve heard there’s alot of that going on. kinda makes you wonder how they’ll do with out us. that is if that day ever comes.