[lbo-talk] Infantry votes with feet

[Charles Brown]

Pentagon: One-third of new soldiers in Iraq army quit just before starting 
operations
By Pauline Jelinek,  12/10/2003 15:19

WASHINGTON (AP) Plans to deploy the first battalion of Iraq's new army are 
in doubt because a third of the soldiers trained by the U.S.-led 
occupation authority have quit, defense officials said Wednesday.
Touted as a key to Iraq's future, the 700-man battalion lost some 250 men 
over recent weeks as they were preparing to begin operations this month, 
Pentagon officials said.
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