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supported so much by the army

for the ORHA.

...

that was looking for the Iraqi army...

was finding many soldiers...

had already found many people...

because we wanted reinstaurarlo.

On having enlisted,

the soldiers had to sign...

or to refill a questionnaire...

on whom were they,

were they, what they were doing...

what skills did they have...

what did military man equip did they have in house...

a lot of information...

that us would have been useful to us.

I was assembling all that.

of advisers of Defense...

that it had to treat

with the Iraqi soldiers...

in charge of Walter Slocombe...

it had remained in Washington

had not visited Iraq.

I said:
" I do not see why we have to go.

" I can prepare oneself better in Washington ".

I asked them repeatedly...

was speaking with them from Baghdad...

that had to come...

because there were the people waiting for them...

and, in particular, to a man...

so that it was taking decisions

and it was starting it.

In his absence, they left to me the task...

of treating with the Iraqi army...

only to support the contact.

The Iraqi army was planted there...

waiting for an approach...

...

that someone was coming...

was saying to them: " East is the plan,

and you are essential.

" We need them ".

Nobody did it ever.

On having finished the war...

on having finished the principal attacks...

units were already not staying

that will work...

they all had gone away to house.

The generals were returning...

with finished divisions saying:

" These are mine ".

One of the Iraqi officials...

...

said...

" Colonel Paul,

I have 10.000 military police officers...

" at your disposal

in one week if you need them ".

I transmitted it to the people of Bernie Kerik...

but they did not do anything.

the dissolution of the army.

Five days after this order...

Jay Garner...

because it was going to leave Iraq

forever on the following day.

We were going in two vehicles in the highway...

going out of the Green space...

when the emboscaron

and they killed two soldiers.

In my opinion, that one was

the beginning of the rebellion.

We go, go, go!

We go, go, go!

My companions and I

we were sitting down in the balcony...

or in the roof

of the Palace of the Republic at night...

and we saw the trackers

for the whole Baghdad.

We saw the flares

of different colors to rise...

indicating adnde they were going...

the convoys of the USA.

of certain compositions...

them.

Iraq was possessing 10 big deposits of weapon

and many more stores

of ammunition without watching.

There were no sufficient soldiers

of the USA to watch them.

They knew where the ammunition was...

they knew how to come

to the weapon and how to use them...

and:
you try to say to them

what do they go away because they do not exist?

would not recommend the common sense to you.

There were enormous stores of ammunition...

without watching for weeks...

or even some months later

of finishing the principal combats.

You see how the insurgents...

they extract missiles, mortars and bombs...

of these stored consignments

for the Iraqis...

and hidden in some place.

say to the Britons

or to those of the USA, who is...

with your small receiver GPS...

" Boys...

" we have found 18.000 millions

of tons of bombs...

" and there is a group of Iraqis with AK-47 s...

" taking them.

" I do not believe that it is the best idea.

They are here ".

And they were saying to you...

" There are no sufficient people to cover it ".

One could not believe it,

it was not the correct response.

See and deal for your own safety...

for that of the citizens, for all...

it is a bad idea.

warned

that to dissolve the army like that...

it would impel, and in fact it impelled,

the massive growth of the rebellion?

Certainly not in these terms.

Did nobody say it to himself?

Not. I do not believe that it is true...

but nobody said it, nobody said...

believe that it is true?

Not, I do not believe that it is true.

Generals' quantity of high status...

they came to the headquarters

of the UNO in the Hotel Channel...

and they were very clear

on the consequences...

this order...

and of alienating...

to this powerful segment of the society...

that would finish in rebellion.

A Lebanese diplomat

called Hassan Salami...

said to his companion when

the generals went away...

...

" I see bullets in his eyes.

" I see bullets in his eyes ".

Even more surprising

that the decision to dissolve the army...

it was the form in which this decision was taken...

Secretly, in one week...

for a group of men in Washington

that had never gone to Iraq.

They did not consult it

with the commanders in Iraq...

not with the chiefs

of staff sets...

not with the ORHA,

...

not with the CIA

not even the Council of National Safety...

not even, as it seems,

with the president of the USA.

We interviewed again

to Walter Slocombe and to Paul Hughes...

...

that led to the dissolution of the army.

They were called to yes same

.

was already counting

with 100.000 persons on May 9...

Did they already have 100.000?

Yes, it was a national effort.

wanted all the copies...

all the discs, and they gave them to me...

and I took them to him to the ORHA.

I said to them:
" Here they have ",

...

" I have all this waiting for you ".

Hughes was thinking about being in contact

with Iraqi officials...

that would have been ready

to re-constitute the units.

It had already obtained 137.000

of conscription.

Not. It had not done it. It is possible that it had...

Nobody might have obtained

of 130.000 not at all...

for nothing, in the chaos

that was reigning in this moment.

They had a system of courier service...

that was covering the area

metropolitan of Baghdad...

of Mosul, of Basora and of Kirkuk.

I do not understand...

Considering the difficulty

to do any thing...

in the ambience

of the operations and the organization...

nobody had 137.000.

Walt was not there.

never met with them,

it did not have it nor designs.

say to Slocombe what happened?

.

You had already done him...

a recommendation

to ambassador Bremer...

and I had done

a try of recommendation...

to secretary Rumsfeld...

on the dissolution of the army...

On the emission of the order

, yes.

Yes, on May 9.

- Yes.

- Very well.

May 9 was the last time

that I had a conversation...

with Walt Slocombe.

We speak by phone

before I was going away.

said to him...

" We are thinking

in the army dissolves...

your efforts to reform it "?

One of the things that I did...

say it to himself ever?

With these words, not.

The conversation was: " I go for there.

" It worries me where I am going to live.

" Will I have vehicles at my disposal?

" My own cooks? ". Bla, bla, bla.

It was not a question of the Iraqi army.

I was informing him on the matter...

did not say that there was already...

come to the conclusion...

and it had recommended

to Bremer the dissolution of the army?

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