What Iraqi forces?

As you watch and read about Gen. Jones' report to Congress today on the state of the Iraqi forces, it's probably a good idea to keep in mind this observation from the NYTimes article.

With no viable Iraqi forces, claims of security gains through "the surge" are folly.

The commission’s call for remaking the national police in some respects raises questions about a major pillar of the troop increase strategy put in place earlier this year by the White House. National police units were designated under that strategy to secure neighborhoods after American and Iraqi Army units cleared the areas of insurgents.

(To this day, I still don't see how "training" reduces sectarianism.)