President Chirac Does Not Get It (1)

Guess how many countries still refuse Iraqi requests to train Iraqi military and police forces inside Iraq? Six (France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece and Spain). Guess how many officers France has pledged to the NATO mission in Brussels set up to train Iraq’s security forces out-of-Iraq. One. And he is described as a ‘mid-level’ officer. Pathetic.

Iraqis want to take their country back. They demand training and resources to defeat the resistance. President Chirac generously built Saddam Hussein a nuclear reactor. Democratic Iraq needs that kind of generosity again, in the shape of a massive training programme for its security forces. (AJ)