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Hearing of House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations: Building Iraqi Security Forces

Date: March 14, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Defense Foreign Affairs


HEARING OF HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, EMERGING THREATS, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: BUILDING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES

March 14, 2005

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Mr. Turner. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Chairman, I thank you for your efforts to continue our review of the operations occurring in Iraq and how we can improve them, both to make the country safer and more stable for our men and women in uniform, and for the Iraqi citizens.

I have had two opportunities to travel to Iraq, once in October 2003, and again this January, 2 weeks prior to the elections. During the last trip we had the opportunity to review some of the training opportunities for the Iraqi soldiers, and also an opportunity to look at some of the exercises that they were conducting, and it certainly is incredibly important work, not only for transition from a U.S.-led to an Iraqi-led security effort, but obviously for any hope of independence for Iraq as a nation.

It is certainly welcome that we had the announcement by NATO of their commitment to assist in this process. I know there are a number of issues that each of you will want to tell us today, and we will have a number of questions concerning how we can be effective, and but there is no question this is very important work.

I thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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