Deteriorating Conditions In Iraq

June 13. 2007 

Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey

As if it couldn’t get any worse. It was annoqnced today that Iraqi soldiers are “disappearing,” which isn’t good for the Western occupation of said country.  

The people of Iraq’s electricity has disappeared (bombing). Their oil is disappearing (theft). Many of their buildings and homes have disappeared (bombing). Many of their civilian men, women, grandparents, children and babies have disappeared (bombing). And now their soldiers are disappearing.  

Tell me again what the White House is doing over in that country it does not own that it is destroying. 

US Officer: Iraqi Police Disappearing 

WASHINGTON (AP) - About one in six Iraqi policemen trained by U.S.-led forces had been lost through attrition by last year—they were killed or wounded, deserted or just disappeared, a senior U.S. military commander said. 

And continuing violence is prompting officials again to increase the size of the Iraqi army, said Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, who until recently headed the training effort. 

That will mean 20,000 more soldiers to be trained this year and yet another increase in 2008, Dempsey told a Pentagon press conference Wednesday. He didn't give the amount of increase planned for next year. – Associated Press