Phil Gingrey: “The point you made, of course, about the Iraqi national police, General Jones, you're right. I was in that same hearing…”

“The point you made, of course, about the Iraqi national police, General Jones, you're right. I was in that same hearing with Representative Kline last week, Mr. Speaker, and General Jones did talk about this Iraqi national police force of about 25,000 that in the past was rife with corruption, and of course, a lot of changes in the leadership, as General Petraeus pointed out today, that has occurred. But I think it's important, and I think Mr. Kline would agree with me, for our colleagues to understand that the press in the last week, talking about the Jones report, suggested that the entire Iraqi security force was incompetent and corrupt when, indeed, 49,000 is only about 10 percent of the 550,000 Iraqi national army and combined police force. So many of them are doing a good job, as you pointed out in the hearing today.”