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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
I imagine that they are doing fine since only the Sunni Triangle really has any problems right now. Look at the map, only about 90 square miles of the whole country has problems.
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The area between the those three city centre points on the map. Uh huh.
What does the "Green Zone" signify then? Extra fine?
Listen: 2 months after the pulverising Baghdad got from Desert Storm (I remember the catch-phrase was "bombed back into the stone age"), the Ba'athists had electric power back at full service. 2 months after the US occupies Baghdad there are still coalition-set booby traps in substations and former workers are flatly forbidden from returning to work. Restoration of power had been contracted out. Today Baghdad still hasn't pre-invasion levels of electric service.
You can find pics of a sturdy new plywood schoolhouse built by twinkling-eyed Americans in Iraq, and you can find pics of the central elementary textbook warehouse a column of flame, or of a collage turned into an army base.
The occupation is screwing with people's lives.