'Incredible Progress' Made Restoring Iraq's Infrastructure, Officials Say

[lozina]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Its really not open to dispute the atrocious extent to which Hussein allowed Iraq's critical public infrastructures to rot into obsolesence and dilapidation in order to shift resources toward rebuilding his military and constructing what...like 40 palaces? Even the UN and UNICEF agreed that hardships suffered by the Iraqi people during the post-Gulf sanctions was due at least as much to a virtual halt on all manners of public works investment and improvement 10 years before the even Gulf War started.

And for the record, the US did not bomb power "generating" facilities. We bombed power "distribution" infrastructure.

What else do you expect your beloved Administration to tell you? You really think they would admit to turning Iraq into a 3rd world nation during the Gulf War and the decadeof sanctions? I thought you'd know better after hearing the administration lie to you about WMDs but it seems you're an abused puppy who keeps comign back for more. The fact is that Iraq's instrastructure and public facilities were spectacular before the Gulf War, go check an old Encylopedia. The Iraqis enjoyed an extremely high high standard of living with state of the art water filtration/sanitization, excellent education and health care facilities. What didn't get blown up in the Gulf War was ravaged by a decade of sanctions. Do sanctions ever work? Did sanctions bring Kim Jong to step down or Fidel Castro to step down? No, sanctions only hurt innocent civilians, yet we continue to conciously destroy civilian's lives with them. It's like continually giving a drug to someone with severe side effects which never puts a dent in the disease it's supposed to cure. Now where do you get your information that Saddam built 40 palaces since the Gulf War? I'd love to hear more on this, or do you suffer from the same syndrome the current administration suffers: exaggerate, lie, twist your words in order to sway opinion?

 

[da loser]

Originally posted by: Czar


rest of the article is rather weird and , yeah mostly weird

heh, I was thinking of posting this earlier. if only it were true, x-ray glasses and airconditioned vests. although, i think the armored guys have air conditioned vests hooked up to the ventilation systems, i could be wrong though.