12,000 Iraqi Policemen Killed Since 2003

And this comes as a surprise to just who? Where else can they earn a living? The country's been wracked from fighting and I would doubt there are very many employment opportunities available.

Some 12,000 Iraqi policemen have been killed since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the country's interior minister said Sunday, as clashes, a suicide bomber and weekend explosions killed more than a dozen Iraqi officers and six American soldiers.

At a news conference in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said despite the thousands of police deaths "when we call for new recruits, they come by the hundreds and by the thousands." [emphasis mine]

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