When Will They Be Ready

These is meaning when will the Iraqi troops be ready to hold their own, instead of having U.S. as a crutch. The U.S. has now been training the Iraqi forces for 5 years now and has spent over 20.4 billion on traing the Iraqi soldiers. Petraeus plans on withdrawing the last of the "surge" by July and return to the 130,000 troop mark. Many feel as if it will take years to get Iraq at a fully functioning military. The Iraq military is experiencing several problems with training these soldiers. One is that Iraqi soldiers do very little preparation in the training and need a more lengthy and stronger training. Second Iraqi troops lack motivation due to the relatively low salary they recieve. Third most of the military troops they are training are from the militia they are fighting and therefore there is the problem that the soldiers wont stay honest.