Police Story - Iraq style

I like to see my friends come back from Iraq now. They all are amazed by the contrast of the Media reports and the reality that they see and live with while they are in Iraq. This story helps to explain why.

I really loved reading this after listening to the Democrats renewing the 'failure' mantra this weekend. HA! Who to believe? My brothers in the service, or the proven liars in the Congress?

Leadership: Police Story: "Police Story

February 9, 2008: U.S. Army chat rooms, message board and listservs are filling up with stories of troops returning for their second or third tour in Iraq and being amazed at how quiet and peaceful the place has become. Those outside the wire (working among Iraqis) a lot notice this most, and they quickly pick up on the main reason; the cops seem more confident and sure of themselves. Those who were around in 2004 and 2005 saw the first new Iraqi police units, and it was not a pretty sight. With few experienced police commanders, and most cops newly recruited (the Saddam era police could not be trusted, and most were corrupt as well), there were, in effect, no police. Except in the Kurdish north (where an effective local police force had existed since the 1990s), most of Iraq depended on tribal leaders, gang bosses or militia commanders for protection from the growing Sunni Arab terrorism, and crime in general.



Year by year, however, more cops, and police commanders, were turned out by police schools in Iraq and overseas. The Jordanians were particularly useful. Jordan has one of the most efficient police forces in the Arab world, and were eager to see law and order return to the Iraqi side of their mutual border. A Jordanian police academy for Iraqi recruits was set up early on."