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SW: →[[Iraqi insurgency]] and first Iraqi elections: - add internal link
On February 9, 2005, Lute was interviewed by CNN's Paula Zahn, who asked Lute about Sen. [[John McCain]]'s "point that insurgents have worked their way into Iraqi forces."
:LUTE: ... this goes very much to our primary effort for 2005 and that is to enhance the quality of Iraqi forces. ... seven months ago there was no Iraqi army, there were no Iraqi commando battalions. There was very little that could be called an Iraqi police force. We've made a great deal of progress in the last seven months. But this is still [[Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq|an immature emerging force]]. Things like infiltration by insurgents, things like sharing intelligence, developing their own intelligence, and developing a coherent chain of command are all things that we're working on for this calendar year.
:ZAHN: So how long do you think it will take for those troops to operate at a level that you would consider satisfactory?
