Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan: We made some mistakes in Iraq .. But unintended
12/22/2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - Baghdad - as thunder - New Morning severe political crisis ravaging the country with the passage of the first week on the withdrawal of U.S. forces that played a big role in Iraq during its existence and after her departure, and this is why many of us to asking lots of questions about the possibility and readiness of our troops, Iraqi keeping the reins after the departure of the Americans, and if our security forces capable of all things, what is the need for the Convention on the coaches who did not give them the Iraqi government immunity for the training of our security forces and what is the impression that has accumulated at the Americans who are out of Iraq and how to look at where all of these questions posed by the "New Morning" on the official spokesman for U.S. forces, General Jeffrey Buchanan before his departure out of Iraq .... * How do you describe the mission of U.S. forces since the entry into Iraq, and very out of it? - when we entered Iraq in 2003 until the withdrawal of it we have a number of important processes and we were able in more than one occasion to extend security and stability in many parts of Iraq, and today we are witnessing the withdrawal of the last American soldier and we are confident and absolute as submitted Iraqi armed forces from the effort after us are committed to take over since 2009 and was able to stabilize security and carried out many successful operations and the task which, if entrusted to us will not differ in terms of implementation and during the period of our existence we have a lot of tasks that have developed capabilities of the Iraqi Army and trained many of the Army Special Forces and Special Forces, Interior Ministry did not we do the work, but we are preparing a kit before incidence, but there have been some mistakes, but it was unintended final. * What size of the forces that entered Iraq in terms of preparing and number and where to put Altm large in number and content? - was our military of 170 thousand soldiers a fighter and we have 505 bases inside Iraqi territory as well as about 200 one thousand military vehicles, soldiers who were in Iraq have returned by the security agreement and much more today, Iraq is free of any American soldier either the equipment, we may take us in September last year a lot of vehicles to the United States and we also give a lot of our machinery to the Iraqi government and we hope that we have been successful in carrying out our duties properly in front of everyone. * Some people say that Iranian pressure was the major reason for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, how can you look at this issue? - There is a security agreement signed between Iraq and the United States and we committed ourselves to all the terms and conditions Convention, starting from our commitment to the treaty was not to Iran any role in the process of withdrawal from Iraq, and today we proved to the world the extent of our respect to the agreements we hold with our allies, and bilateral relations between Iraq and the U.S. began moving towards the political frameworks strategy away from military intervention because we are friendly countries away from all the problems. * According to you during the year 2003 to get out of Iraq may Drepettm Iraqi forces, what is the need for Iraq to the Convention on the trainers for the training of Iraqi forces? - in 2003 to 2005 were training the Iraqi army a lot of preliminary tasks, after the year 2005 we started train the commandos of the Ministry of the Interior the functions of the different tasks of the army and in the years 2008 and 2009, we have the efforts of an extraordinary large in the training of Iraqi forces, especially in the south of Iraq and we had a vision in the training fit with the current requirements and according to need them and most of the training curriculum related to combating terrorism has not granted any much for the protection of the atmosphere and the Iraqi border and naval forces, and Iraq today, a contractor on a squadron of aircraft F-16 and this issue needs to train a high-tech for the pilots of Iraqis who present them now in America, 10 pilots to continue training on the aircraft and a fighter and those pilots need to authorize the us to be able then to protect Iraqi airspace without reference to us, and we want to say that the training of Iraqi forces in 2003 to the Convention relating to the training of troops has gone through different stages in terms of type, size, technical and in that period did not limit something specific to Iraqi forces on the contrary, we have trained the Ministry of Defense and Interior to develop the foundations of training programs and this alone is an important issue in military terms, and during our training for the armed forces, we found that these forces are the fastest in the world in terms of growth and development and today is able to protect the internal security and defending the homeland from external aggression because it has the best military equipment as well as the enjoyment of its members qualities patriotism and loyalty to him. * If you need Iraq to the American intervention in the event of exposure to external aggression is one of the neighboring countries does the U.S. forces will respond to Iraq's appeal? - I think that the security agreement provides for a request for assistance by U.S. forces When necessary, we will not limit the direction of Iraq in this regard and today we know that Iraq is on the way of diplomatic relations to resolve external conflicts and pursue a political precedent of Saddam Hussein's regime committed many mistakes with the neighboring countries Valthrkat by the military leaders, especially Chief of Staff Iraqi army Babiker Zebari show awareness of the military in the bilateral relations and regional issues with neighboring countries and the region, and this confirms that Iraq is moving properly do not need to amendments, and we are if we look at the development of Iraqi forces in recent times, we find that Iraq is capable of deterring foreign interventions and control over domestic matters in the the event of any disruption security, are to be commended effort of large carried out by Iraqi naval forces to protect Iraqi waters and ports very well. * Why were you chosen as a source for the protection of Iraqi airspace in terms of processing and training has not been selected Other? - in short, because we have the strongest air force in the world and we have skilled pilots. Q: How do you view the development of capabilities of Iraq in terms of protecting the atmosphere? - today's Iraq had no weapons of aviation in an integrated manner, but he has officers from the good kind who are evolving very quickly and this is what drives us to pay attention to these officers in various aspects because we We believe that man is driving machine. * Wayne arrived in Iraq on the issue of sovereignty over the air? - there must be several conditions for the rule of the air the most important vision of airspace command and control in order to communicate and provide the capacity to respond and not be deadly as well as the response of the attack, the vision of airspace we find that the Iraq versed from the civilian side, Iraq has a radar being able to see 60% of those entering the airspace and air navigation before, and the American troops that supplied Iraq with radar detects external interference as well as Iraq contracted to buy a sophisticated radar enabled him to control of Iraqi airspace and we trained Iraqi forces on this subject in Iraq's intention for the future increase in radar-edge ranges far and wide vision that detect foreign interventions, and there is a joint operations center between the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the system of civil unable to detect any external interference and also able to respond to these interventions, based on the subject proceeded with the Iraqi government to buy a squadron of aircraft F-16 and believe that the Iraqi government will not use these aircraft for the purposes of frivolous as it is a guarantee for the protection of Iraqi airspace that need this type of flying. * There was a joint collaboration between you and the Iraqi forces in terms of intelligence sharing does this will continue cooperation after the withdrawal? - we will continue to exchange intelligence information because we are facing the enemy itself is terrorism, but not the size itself, which we were because our forces left Iraq, and we do not question the ability of Iraqi forces began to rely on their intelligence significantly, especially in recent times, which has shown through effectiveness and their ability to detect things and today Iraq has a solid with the naval forces of the rules of aircraft intelligence driven without a pilot and this is what will help them also to detect and see the waters, one of the important areas. * What did you learn while you are in Iraq? - during my stay in Iraq I learned always to not be have the right answer, either what I have for the Iraqis are so many things I have a great love for my brothers Iraqis and I lost a lot of them especially during the performance of duties and as long as my life was demonstrated brothers Iraqi security forces during the performance of duties, and we Americans, we disagree about the Iraqis in terms of civilization and social order and this is born of misunderstanding in some things and I also learned that I'm not saying is true or wrong because the difference is usually in the opinion because of the gaps with dimension formative, cultural and social. * What is the thing that you wish for? - I hope to go back to Iraq as a tourist, I hope to have the Iraqi people deserved to be sovereign and self-sufficiency, and we have given over the past years a lot of sacrifices along with our Iraqi brothers should be recognition of all these sacrifices, and I think that the Iraqi people have a choice in the right to form his government and has the opportunity also to the development of the economy to serve the all its components and hope that people enjoy all the rights of the well-being and safety.
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