farquar
04-13-2005, 04:01 PM
"My concern is they'll come in and clean house," Rumsfeld told reporters. "You can't do that, if you are trying to create a chain of command in the Iraqi security force and defeat a doggone insurgency.
"Anything they do in the interior and the defense ministries ought to be with an eye to the fact that Iraqis are getting killed and they better have a good reason for doing what they are doing."
It was the bluntest comment to date by a US official over fears that Iraq's election-winning Shiite political bloc aimed to carry out mass purges of the security apparatus and other ministries. http://www.political-news.org/breaking/8886/rumsfeld-arrives-in-afghanistan-after-warning-new-iraqi-leaders-against-purge.html
"Anything they do in the interior and the defense ministries ought to be with an eye to the fact that Iraqis are getting killed and they better have a good reason for doing what they are doing."
It was the bluntest comment to date by a US official over fears that Iraq's election-winning Shiite political bloc aimed to carry out mass purges of the security apparatus and other ministries. http://www.political-news.org/breaking/8886/rumsfeld-arrives-in-afghanistan-after-warning-new-iraqi-leaders-against-purge.html