US trainer says Iraq police helping secure country (must learn "values")

[Barrett808]

US trainer says Iraq police helping secure country
By Charles Aldinger

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq's police commandos are becoming a major spearhead of security in the country but must learn to temper battlefield aggression with democratic values, a U.S. military trainer said on Friday.

Army Col. Jeffrey Buchanan told Pentagon reporters in a teleconference from Iraq that the new National Police Commando Division was making progress in fair treatment of civilians under the close watch of U.S. and other coalition troops.

Unlike local police, the commandos are recruited at a national level and most have served in the security forces of former President Saddam Hussein's government.

Despite incidents of sectarian violence by Iraqi security forces and reported torture of Sunni Muslims in secret Iraqi jails, Buchanan said, "We think we're making great progress in the behavioral dimension."

But "values -- understanding what it's like to be a servant of society as part of a democratically elected government -- is something that is going to take time to learn," he said.

(more)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060203/wl_nm/iraq_usa_police_dc

[Tempest]

1. More Pentagon propaganda

The militia groups are the ones who are securing the country, not the Iraqi army.

And they have their own agendas, which are in direct conflict with the U.S.'.

[Sparkman]

2. Chino, Cal: Iraq M.P. (airforce) Elio Carrion shot 3 times by sherrif depu

deputy...UNARMED, full compliance with unnamed sherrif's "commands"...all caught on video tape.
THAT'S THE "VALUES" airman Carrion learned...keep your body armour when on leave, in California.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1561958

This was worse than the Rodney King police brutality incedent.

[LynnTheDem]

3. US "democratic" values...such as INVASIONS & OCCUPATIONS

And slaughtering men, women & kids with "shock & awe" bombing. And "enemy combatant" gulags where prisoners have no legal rights. And torture. And finding elected leaders to be "worrisome". And passing laws to make "disruptors" equal to "enemy combatants" and dissent equal to treason.

That sorta US "democratic values".

[wordpix2]

4. meanwhile, according to Biden, don't travel with Iraqi forces b/c they're

not equipped