Mar 27th, 2006, 03:38 PM
Not yet, because obviously you think I can't read. I read what you wrote and I'm curious about it's accuracy.
"The Iraqi government can no longer count on U.S. funds and must rely on its own revenues and other foreign aid, particularly from Persian Gulf nations. 'The Iraqi government needs to build up its capability to do its own capital budget investment,' said Speckhard."
-Daniel Speckhard, Director of the US Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, which is in charge of rebuilding Iraqi infrastructure
As far as your infrastructure stuff goes, we are JUST begining to approach the levels Iraq was at prior to our invasion, and we have decided not to do any more.
I'm glad the text books don't have pictures of Sadaam in them, does that make up for the fact that a lot of kids can't take the risk of setting foot outside let lone going to school?
Support your argument. It's nice commercial airlines are making plans, but since even with our fully militarized presence we can't protect the road from the airport to Bahgdad what do those plans mean? When the Iraqi ministry of the interior is running death squads, what do we do about it? Complain to the government? In Bahgdad, right now, people are shifting into ethnically controlled zones.
If they can form a unity government, if there is anything even remotely resembling loyalty to the state as oppose to the tribe in the military and police, I can see Iraq doing something about it's problems, but what do WE do about their problems right now apart from making anyone we use force for look like an American puppet?
Don't just cut an paste me a press release from the Lincoln group. It isn't the bad ol' press that's wrong in Iraq.
I'll be the first to admit, I have no idea what it's like to be an Iraqi right now. If you have some unique window into the experience, why don't you share? My guess is that for everyone who appreciattes that we can get them a few hours of electricity a day, there's a lot more folks discovering they hate us more than they thought they did when everyone in a house including toddlers gets killed by our bullets and the initiaial report is that they died in a car bomb explosion.
Maybe you're thinking of what we could do their if there was a different commander in cheif running the show, a different secretary of defense, how much we could help if not for 'mismanagement'. Well, this management team is in place or another few years, and I don't see any sign of serious rethinking.
I read your post. It was flippant, arrogant, and it didn't answer my question. Why, one would almost think you were more interested in 'getting off' scoring points on me than actual Iraqi lives.
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