Iraq Progress Eclipsing Post-World War II Germany

“Within two months, all major Iraqi cities and most towns had municipal councils – something that took eight months in postwar Germany.

Within four months the Iraqi Governing Council had appointed a cabinet – something that took 14 months in Germany.

An independent Iraqi Central Bank was established and a new currency announced in just two months – accomplishments that took three years in postwar Germany.

Within two months a new Iraqi police force was conducting joint patrols with coalition forces.

Within three months, we had begun training a new Iraqi army – and today some 56,000 are participating in the defense of their country. By contrast, it took 14 months to establish a police force in Germany and 10 years to begin training a new German army.”

(SOURCE: U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
writing in the September 25 edition of The Washington Post)

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