An independant commetion created by Congress is strongly recommending down size U.S. forcing in Iraq and changing their missions.
The Top U.S. commander General David presented the panel's conclusions to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Jones offered a mostly upbeat take on the Iraqi security forces.
Also, the General said that the commission's overall assessment of the Iraq Security Forces is that there has been measurable and uneven Progress.
The commission judged it not yet protecting Iraq's borders. And there is lots of threats that the army should deal with it.
The situation where there was so much negativity around any particular police force.
It was unbelievable, the amount of negative comments that the U.S. Army got from the Iraqi Police.
There was almost a universal feeling that the national policewere corrupt, had been accused of having death squads. Finally the General said "I think we need to start transitioning to an Iraqi lead, not a U.S.-coalition lead."