Agreed on training, I'm sorry. That was rude of me not to clarify.
However, training only gets you so far. At some point it doesn't matter how good your soldiers are if they are completely outclassed. You take the best brigade of any army of 1900 with the best general of 1900, pit it against say...Idano, an armored regiment of a mid-WW2 armored regiment with someone who is at least worth the bird on his collar. You will see the former slaughtered.
My point was it didn't matter how good or bad the Iraqi troops were, they never stood a chance due to their inability to stay alive on a modern battlefield.
So my country is even more guilty of this, as the United States hasn't fought a pitched battle against a comparable foe in quite some time. Not to say that it is a bad thing that we aren't picking fights with the big kids anymore.
@ CPS, only joking buddy. Here, a sexy Leclerc kickin up a rooster tail.