DOD tells US troops in Iraq that mixed-race units are bad

Ok, I can deal with the fact that the training manual we're giving our troops in Iraq is out of date, and that current DOD policy is not suggest that black people have no character. BUT, why is our state-of-the-art military, after four years of George Bush throwing money at it, having to rely on 60 year old out-of-date racist manuals to train our troops? Are things that bad? Not to mention, nobody could have ordered them to remove the racist references, or at least black them out (no pun intended)? What must soldiers who are African-American think when they see their buds reading and laughing at these passages? Why even put them in that position?

Typical non-chalance from Bush and Rummy.