let me get this straight.

1) we free the people of iraq from saddams police state.

2) after kicking out saddam we hire back all the cops that used to violate the iraqi people rights and say we are hiring them to protect the iraqi people from looters.

something tells me the iraqi people won't buy that logic and instead will say that the bush's rule is the same police state as saddam's rule. - the webmaster

from: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0416war-police16.html

U.S. reluctantly shoulders added police work in Iraq

Esther Schrader
Los Angeles Times
Apr. 16, 2003 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - Even as it insists that its soldiers aren't cut out for police work, the Pentagon is stepping up its peacekeeping role in Iraq and bringing more military police and civil affairs units into the country.

It is a role the U.S. military takes on reluctantly, and one it fears will last for months or years. The reluctance is driven by the military's belief that soldiers trained to kill are not well-suited to keep the peace, by the political sensitivity of American forces imposing order on another society, and by the lack of a tradition among U.S. forces of handling police work on a large scale. Even military police are not trained as police in the civilian sense but rather primarily to handle prisoners of war or maintain order on military bases.

"You can control a city of 5 million people, but you can't police it," a senior Defense official said of the challenges facing U.S. troops in Baghdad. "We gave a lot of medals in the last three weeks to guys who know how to pull a trigger and hit something. It's hard to turn around and tell those same guys not to pull the trigger but read them their rights, instead."

But with the U.S. unwilling to cede power quickly in Iraq to regional authorities, as it did in Afghanistan, it appears for the time being that the military has no other choice.

Already, Marines in Baghdad are operating joint police patrols with Iraqi civil authorities, and the widespread looting and mayhem appears to be subsiding. The Pentagon, which has more than 2,000 civil affairs and military police specialists attached to forces in Iraq or standing by in Kuwait, is planning to deploy more.

The civil affairs units, made up almost entirely of reservists, are charged primarily with helping rebuilding efforts. They include doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers and health care workers.

More civil affairs teams, already stretched thin from a series of deployments to Afghanistan, are on standby to deploy to Iraq, military officials say. Hundreds of soldiers trained as military police accompanying the 4th Infantry Division have crossed into Iraq from Kuwait since Monday. .

At the Pentagon on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was vague about how much troops in Iraq will be bolstered by additional civil affairs and military police units. "As the nature of the conflict winds down, which it most assuredly is, the need for certain types of things declines and the need for other types of things increases," Rumsfeld told reporters.

The State Department has pledged to organize a force of 1,200 civilian police and judicial officers from various countries to send to Iraq, and U.S. military officials and diplomats are in discussions with foreign governments about whether and what each can contribute to the force.


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