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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (17858)	3/9/2007 11:33:48 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 71588

Baghdad electricity not till 2013, U.S. says DAVID WOOD; The Baltimore Sun Published: March 2nd, 2007 01:00 AM WASHINGTON – Getting full-time electric power turned on in Baghdad, a key wartime goal toward which the United States has spent $4.2 billion, won’t be accomplished until 2013, U.S. officials said Thursday. Power outages in the Iraqi capital are frequent, leaving residents without electricity for an average of 17 or 18 hours a day. For most residents without personal generators, that means not just no lights but dead radios, televisions, heaters, washing machines and water pumps. Army Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, the senior U.S. military officer overseeing reconstruction efforts, told reporters Thursday via video teleconference that the Iraqi government planned to increase power generation “to catch up with demand” for electric power by 2013, “somewhere in around that area.” When President Bush announced in January that he was sending additional troops to Baghdad, he said the initiative must go “beyond military operations.” Ordinary Iraqis, Bush said, “must see visible improvements” in their neighborhoods. Continuing shortages of electricity and other vital government services violate a key provision of the counterinsurgency strategy written by Gen. David Petraeus, the new top military commander in Iraq. That strategy dictates that a government must provide tangible benefits to its citizens to attract their loyalty away from the insurgents. The United States has poured almost $22 billion into reconstruction projects. But much of the money has been siphoned off for security initiatives such as training and equipping Iraqi army and police units, according to a report in January by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. “It’s critical, because electricity is a key measure of how well the government is providing for its people,” said Kalev Sepp, a retired U.S. Army special forces officer and a counterinsurgency consultant to the U.S. military command in Baghdad. thenewstribune.com

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (17858)	3/9/2007 11:40:29 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 71588

So what you are saying is that Ray Nagin continues to be either corrupt of incompetent, if not both. Did you hear the one where FEMA won't let the recent tornado victims have trailers. Instead, they have decided to sell them. You ask....sell them? Me too. Why are they selling after just buying so many. And do you know how much they are getting for the damn things........$.40 on the dollar. Can you believe it.....never been occuppied......and yet they only are worth $.40 on the dollar. Once again we all get screwed.....Gulf coast residents, NO residents, the American taxpayer. Then there's the business of Walter Reed......it turns out that the bad condition of Building 18 is connected to one of Cheney's chronie buddies from Halliburton. It seems Cheney, like a good frigging GOPer, wanted to privatize maintenance services at Walter Reed. And guess what, he just happened to have a good bud in the business. That's your big hero.....screwing the American taxpayer and our soldiers. You all should be ashamed.....very ashamed....for twice voting into power such crumpbums. They are wrecking this country like no one has been able to do so in the past. Its disgusting and you have the audacity to bring up Nagin's name. If only, Bush were as incompetent as Nagin we might not be up to our eyeballs in debt. And please.....shutup your piggish anne coulter.......because if you don't, we will deport her to some Pacific island where she can rant to her stupid heart's content. Stupid is as stupid does!