"BRIG. GEN. DOUGLAS LUTE, DIR. OF OPERATIONS, CENTCOM: Well, Paula, this goes
very much to our primary effort for 2005 and that is to enhance the quality of
Iraqi forces. You know, we need to keep this in perspective. But in seven months
ago there was no Iraqi army, there were no Iraqi commando battalions. There was
very little that could be called an Iraqi police force. We've made a great deal
of progress in the last seven months. But this is still an immature emerging
force. Things like infiltration by insurgents, things like sharing intelligence,
developing their own intelligence, and developing a coherent chain of command
are all things that we're working on for this calendar year."
I hope that it doesn't turn out that this new war czar is cut from the same cloth as Bush and the crew that got us into the war. What the war needs, what Iraq needs and what America needs in someone who can approach the problems we are facing there from a new perspective. I think that Bush and his supporters have invested too much into success and have lost perspective. On the other hand democrats have invested too much in failure and also lost perspective. What is needed for a good solution is a new vision and some new ideas on how to reach that goal.
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