Iraq troop training takes backseat

clipped from www.thenewstribune.com WASHINGTON – Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces. Training Iraqi troops, which had been the cornerstone of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy since 2005, has dropped in priority, said officials in Baghdad and Washington. But evidence has been building for months that training Iraqi troops is no longer the focus of U.S. policy. Pentagon officials said they know of no new training resources that have been included in U.S. plans to dispatch 28,000 additional troops to Iraq. “The goal was to put the Iraqis in charge. The problem is we didn’t know how to do it and we underestimated the insurgency,” said Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

As Bill Moyers said the other day on Real Time with Bill Maher, this little known story also took a backseat in the media. This new "unofficial" official policy of our government means that Bush's original objectives are over, our men are now stuck there and ultimately many more U.S. deaths will occur.