Saturday, January 27, 2007
Another Wah! Wah! Wah!!! moment
This one from the new savior of our forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus. Part of his plan for Baghdad will use Iraqi troops of the Iraqi Facilities Protection Service, a group no better than thugs and gunmen.
But that service is widely considered unreliable, and elements were described in July by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as "more dangerous than the militias," according to Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.).The FPS was the brainchild of Medal of Freedom wearer Paul Bremer and like so many other efforts, it has lived up to its Bushovik origins. One shudders at the thought of the chaos that will result from pouring this gasoline on the current fires in that poor tortured city.
"The prime minister said he wanted to get rid of the FPS as fast as possible," Reed said this week, recalling his meeting with Maliki in Baghdad last summer. There are "bad elements" in FPS units that "are carrying out murders and kidnappings . . . [and] attacking the infrastructure that they are supposedly protecting," Reed said in his trip report about what Maliki had told him. "Because of the FPS," Reed wrote, Maliki said that "some governmental ministries' guards are more dangerous than the militias."...
....[Army Lt. Gen. Martin E.]Dempsey was particularly critical of the FPS, saying: "They have a reputation for gross misconduct." He specified as "particularly notorious" the FPS units associated with the ministries of transportation and health, both under the control of associates of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The FPS units employed by those ministries are "a source of funding and jobs for the Mahdi Army," Sadr's militia, according to the Iraq Study Group report.
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