and the US begrudgingly assents, but if and only if....
Hmm... seems to me that 20B badly spent is just the tip of a very large money wasting iceberg, but how many troops did that 20B fund?
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Instead Iraq turned to military advisers from Iran to help its fighting force of more than 20,000 men -- many of them from Shiite Muslim militiamen with Iranian links.A condition of the U.S. strikes is that the militias go home.
Al-Muttalibi admits that Iraq's army is feeble - despite the $20 billion spent by America to train and equip it.
"I think the American money was very badly spent by the Americans," he said. "The Americans produced for us a very weak, disorganized army filled with corruption that fell within the first battle."
Hmm... seems to me that 20B badly spent is just the tip of a very large money wasting iceberg, but how many troops did that 20B fund?
That's a million bucks per Iraqi soldier, isn't it?fighting force of more than 20,000
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