Reports are coming in that many members of the New Iraqi Security Forces were looting homes, robbing people, and just plain running roughshod over some neighborhoods in the recent "crack down" on terrorists. I posted the below back on January 14.

MIGHTY IRAQ, IT COULD HAPPEN
A little side bet here: when the Iraqis really take over, like when they actually run their own security, I predict that they will just start killing all the terrorist cocksuckers on sight. Our system of government is not their history. Mudville has a posting up about how more police graduated from police school and how "we" got a bunch of guns out of a mosque while respecting their rights. You just know the Iraqis, if left to their own devices, would have shot the place up and eaten fried imam for dinner. One of the dangers of training these guys is that we have trained a potentially lethal force, one much better trained and equipped than the one Saddam had, and that these bad boys can be led. Just imagine your streets patrolled by Special Forces guys who are totally corrupt and you have what Iraq could easily become. Remember, we basically equipped the Taliban with all good intentions. We have to do it in Iraq, but we may be sorry. Very sorry.