Iraqi security force problems

Iraqi security forces, whose buildup is seen as the linchpin of the US exit strategy, remain crippled by poor discipline, questionable loyalties and a rate of absenteeism possibly reaching into tens of thousands, US congressional investigators said.
  Manorama Online article

Not to mention by being shot by the Americans (see previous post).

Citing unnamed US defense officials, congressional investigators said Iraqi soldiers absent from their units without leave number "probably in the tens of thousands." As for the national police, the Iraqi Interior Ministry simply does not know how many police officers it has at any given moment because local police stations don't provide accurate reporting, the report stated.

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But a senior military official downplayed the importance of the findings by the Government Accountability Office, saying that high numbers of Iraqi police officers absent without leave was "a cultural thing."

I don't know whether to laugh or....

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.