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To: Road Walker who wrote (308076)	10/29/2006 3:29:11 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

If there really is light at the end of the tunnel, why after three and a half years can’t we yet guarantee light in Baghdad? Symbolically enough, television transmission of the Khalilzad-Casey press conference was interrupted by another of the city’s daily power failures. If Iraq’s leaders had signed on to the 12-month plan of “benchmarks” the Americans advertised, why were those leaders nowhere in sight? We found out one day later, when the prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, mocked the very idea of an America-imposed timetable. “I am positive that this is not the official policy of the American government, but rather a result of the ongoing election campaign,” he said, adding dismissively, “And that does not concern us much.” Now watch TF swoop in here and say there were 24.3 more kilowatt hours this year than last year in Baghdad, and that things are on the upswing. <g>