More than 12,000 Iraqi police casualties in last two years

[DoYouEverWonder]

Oct 6, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thousands of Iraqi police officers have been wounded or killed over the last two years, said the U.S. commander in charge of police training in Iraq on Friday.

Since September 2004, about 4,000 officers have been killed and 8,000 injured, said Maj. Gen. Joseph Paterson in a teleconference from Baghdad with Pentagon reporters. The police have "paid a great price," he said.

U.S. commanders are focused on reducing violence in Baghdad to the level where the Iraqi police can take over security. With the Iraqi capital secured, U.S. leaders say the Iraqi government can switch its focus on providing security and basic services to the rest of the country. That would set the conditions for U.S. troops to begin withdrawing.

But the Iraqi police have been criticized for their performance and for ties to militias and death squads suspected of hundreds of kidnappings and murders each month in Iraq.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.main/index.html

I hate to see their workmans comp rates. :sarcasm:

[MadMaddie]

1. We don't hear the * cabal talking about this do we...

Even in light of an entire military Brigade being taken off the streets (because of hit squads) and the death rate of the police officers....

Remember they gave us some bogus number of how many troops and police were trained (never verified) well it stands to reason that a brigade of soldiers and the deaths of police impacts that overall number.....which means our troops have to step in to do their jobs.....this will never end for America until we withdraw.....

[BOSSHOG]

2. But as any good "christian conservative" in America will tell you

more would die in car wrecks and those police officers are volunteers and most of them lie about their injuries (except for the dead ones.) and on top of that they are just "ragheads." Thanks to george bush there are 500 trillion more free humans on the planet since he became president; and freedom is on the march.

[bif]

3. Dupe? Almost same post down below.