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WorldTribune.com: U.S. tries again with Iraqi force, this time emphasizing consensus

BAGHDAD – The U.S. military has tried to win support from Shi'ite leaders to rebuild the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps.

U.S. officials said the military hopes that Shi'ite tribal leaders and clerics will help recruit and even sponsor combatants for the ICDC. They said this could rebuild confidence in the force following its collapse during the Shi'ite revolt in April.

The model for the ICDC effort, officials said, would be the 36th Battalion of the ICDC, based in Faluja, Middle East Newsline reported. Officials said the 36th Battalion fought rather than fled from combat because they were largely recruited and stationed by Kurdish groups in northern Iraq.

"So we found that the 36th Battalion model may have some utility, and we have taken it because the 36th was ours as well, and we've taken it now down to center-south," U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Martin Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, said on Tuesday.

"We've engaged with the political party leaders, we've engaged with the tribal sheiks and the religious leaders. What we're doing is we're going from consensus, to participation, to ownership. The first time around we went from participation and tried to get to ownership. We never did build consensus. We are now building consensus, and I think you're going to find over time it will become a better model."

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