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...if the Iraqi nation goes on to live another hundred years, it will remember this:

Officers from the 82nd Airborne Division stationed a 10-minute drive away could hear the battle clearly. They offered help but the Hammad said it wasn't needed. The Americans did provide additional ammunition and weapons, including light machine guns. After the battle, soldiers at the civil defense base proudly displayed a light machine gun and a pair of rocket propelled grenade launchers they had captured from the attackers.

That when dying and bleeding, beset by the flower of terrorism, with pistol to set against automatic rifle and grenade, the Iraqi police did not ask for help from 82nd Airborne. They asked for ammunition.

Iraqi bloggers have pointed out that to for an Iraqi to take up the mantle of policeman or other position of defense in Iraq is to paint a target on your back. The pay has been much less than what insurgents have been offering to join them.

Yet they are lined up to join. They were lined up again the next day at the police station the day after terrorists had blown up the line the previous day.