Love to watch them eat their own

Why oh why has it taken so long for people to wake up? Sigh!

Training the police is as important to stabilizing Iraq as building an effective army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group said Wednesday.

``The police training system has not gone well,'' said former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the bipartisan commission.

For a second day, a key Republican directly challenged President Bush to do more than pay ``lip service'' to this and other recommendations on how to resolve the troubled conflict in Iraq.

``As a nation we'd be much better off if the executive branch were not so insular,'' said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. ``I'd think the executive branch would be well advised to do more than have a meeting and a news conference to give in-depth consideration to what is being proposed here.''

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