LIGHTS OUT IN IRAQ

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Registered: 11-11-1999
LIGHTS OUT IN IRAQ
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Tue, 09-14-2004 - 12:36pm
Nineteen months after the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has failed to achieve significant reconstruction, contributing to the ongoing frustrations of the Iraqi people.

According to Bathsheba Crocker, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, when it comes to economic opportunity, services, and social well-being, "Iraq is actually moving backward." The Los Angeles Times reports the job of restoring electricity to war-torn Iraq is "steeped in errors and misjudgment." Electricity for Iraqis was central to White House reconstruction plans, but today, Iraq's largest source of electricity, the Baiji power plant, "produces less than half the electricity it generated" two years ago.

Why is the country still in the dark? Lack of planning, inconsistent leadership and an over-reliance on private contractors. The Bush administration "vastly underestimated the time, money and effort needed to restore the country's power grid."

It's indicative of the failures of the entire reconstruction process, still marked by "tainted water supplies, limited sewage treatment and curtailed construction of public buildings." The ongoing failure has dire ramifications for the unstable security situation, producing "a deep reservoir of confusion and anger that feeds the country's deadly insurgency."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040920/usnews/20iraq_3.htm

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-power12sep12,1,3750922,print.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 08-24-2004
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 7:55am
Why is Iraq still having problems such as this? Try Al Sadr and his resistance movement.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-11-1999
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 5:33pm
"Why is Iraq still having problems such as this? Try Al Sadr and his resistance movement."


Yes, you are right, Al Sadr is one part of this. It seems that we launched his resistance movement when we tried to shut his newspaper down.

You would have thought that all of this would have been taken into account before the rush to war, though.......

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 08-28-2004
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 6:45pm


Comparing board members to Tokyo Rose?

Everyone Please report this violation (the little box on your right). Enough is enough.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-11-1999
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 7:25pm


"Comparing board members to Tokyo Rose?"

Consider the source.

"The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative."

Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 05-27-2003
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 8:08pm
<>> That remark came back and haunted Bush last time he said it. How many soldiers have died since then?

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-11-1999
Thu, 09-16-2004 - 12:39am
"<>> That remark came back and haunted Bush last time he said it. How many soldiers have died since then?"


816.



Source:

http://icasualties.org/oif/

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.