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Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces. George W. Bush, Speech to National Endowment for Democracy, October 6, 2005 (...) GEN. CASEY: We fully recognize that Iraqi armed forces will not have an independent capability for some time, because they don't have the institutional base to support them. And so Level 1, as you'll recall from the slide, that's what's got one battalion...

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Numbers Racket

Billmon

October 9, 2005

Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces.

George W. Bush
Speech to National Endowment for Democracy
October 6, 2005

I'm encouraged by the increasing size and capability of the Iraqi security forces. Today they have more than 100 battalions operating throughout the country.

George W. Bush
Radio Address
October 1, 2005

Until a couple of weeks ago, [Gen. David] Petraeus was in charge of the U.S. effort to train and equip Iraqi forces. In perhaps the most detailed public account so far of the state of Iraq's forces he said 115 army combat and special police battalions were rated as being "in the fight."

United Press International
Analysis: Training Iraqi army a slow process
October 6, 2005

We have more than a hundred Iraqi army and special police battalions participating with us in conducting counterinsurgency operations.

Gen George Casey
Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee
September 29, 2005

I think we have 86 Iraqi army battalions today that are operating with us.

Gen. Richard Myers
Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee
September 29, 2005

The 115 Iraqi army and special police battalions already declared battle ready . . . are still well short of the 185,000 troops a Pentagon spokesman recently cited for total Iraqi security forces.

Inside the Pentagon
Officers Worry Iraqi Army Will
Disintegrate After U.S. Draws Down

September 15, 2005

________________________
Public statements by Bush Administration officials about the number of ISF personnel grew unrealistic a short time after the invasion, and soon skyrocketed out of control. By June 2004 . . . the Administration was claiming that over 200,000 ISF troops had been trained. This estimate . . . turned out to be the total number of people on the ISF payrolls, including administrative staff, deserters, and countless others unfit to fight. It also included over 70,000 Facilities Protection Service officers, which have been described as being similar to night watchmen, who had received only one week of training. The Administration was forced to revise its estimate downward to 95,000 within three months, a number which Pentagon documents later proved still to be an overly optimistic assessment.

Senate Democratic Policy Committee
Has the Bush Administration
Leveled With the American People
About the Readiness of Iraqi Security Forces?

September 12, 2005

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GEN. CASEY: We fully recognize that Iraqi armed forces will not have an independent capability for some time, because they don't have the institutional base to support them. And so Level 1, as you'll recall from the slide, that's what's got one battalion. And it's going to be a long time before . . .

SEN. MCCAIN: Used to be three. Now we've gone from three to one?

GEN. CASEY: Pardon me?

SEN. MCCAIN: It was three before.

GEN. CASEY: Right.

SEN. MCCAIN: The previous report was you had three battalions. Now we're down to one battalion.

GEN. CASEY: Right, and things change in the battalions. I mean, we're making assessments on personnel, on leadership, on training.

SEN. MCCAIN: And you . . .

GEN. CASEY: I mean, there are a lot of variables that are involved here, Senator.


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