Iraq military self-sufficiency

[Tyreds Tale]

Iraq making good progress toward military self-sufficiency
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Washington: Iraq is making good progress toward being able take over its own security, with some 227,000 troops and police now "trained and equipped," US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.

Rumsfeld said that by the end of 2006, that number will grow to about 325,000, roughly equally divided between police and army. "The total today is about 227,000 if you combine them both, and they are all trained and equipped," Rumsfeld told members of the House Armed Services Committee at a hearing on the US defense budget for the coming year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060208/pl_afp/usiraqmilitary_060208221430

[ksdunlap]

could not get the story to pull up, came up with a different one. But the more boots they can get on the ground the sooner our boys can come home. like the sound of that

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Iraq needs $20 billion in foreign investment to triple oil output over the next decade, Iraqi officials hoping to draw money into their war-torn country told executives in the U.S. energy capital on Wednesday..

[Tyreds Tale]

ohh, opps,
try this one:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060208/pl_afp/usiraqmilitary_060208221430