They gave him room and board, too.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Creation of Iraqi army - Brief article - Column

It has now been almost three years since George W. Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. And still the Iraqi army is not strong enough to replace our own. Why is this? One clue comes from Major Gen. Paul Eaton, who was the first officer assigned to create an Iraqi army. He says he got the assignment on May 9, 2003, a week after Bush's speech.

As an indication of just how seriously the...