Iraqi Army Running Desperately Short of Deserters
BAGHDAD, IRAQ – A confidential Pentagon memo on the fighting in Iraq suggests that problems in the Iraqi Army have reached the point where it is now even running desperately short of deserters.
The memo, written by the U.S. military's Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, says that Iraqi desertion levels "have plunged to dangerously low l…
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