From: clifto
Organization: Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:00:52 -0600
Subject: the church of bush

John Barnard wrote:
The war started with lies

Repeating that lie hasn't made it true yet, and it won't. But just for
entertainment purposes, why not cite us one of those lies?

On Thursday, President Bush claimed that: "Nearly 100,000 fully trained and
equipped Iraqi soldiers, police officers, and other security personnel are
working today." *- President Bush, Press Conference, Sept. 23, 2004

However, the Pentagon said last Monday that of these ³nearly 100,000 fully
trained and equipped Iraqi soldiers² only about 53,000 Iraqi troops have
undergone training.

In addition, Reuters reports that of the nearly 90,000 Iraqis currently in
the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training.
And it will be July 2006 before the administration's new goal of 135,000
fully trained police is met.

Greg