Faith-based News for Extra-Terrestrials$1 BIL MORE FOR "SECURITY", $1 BIL LESS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
LA TIMES:
Skyrocketing security costs have forced American officials here to slash about $1 billion from projects intended to rebuild Iraq's shattered infrastructure, dealing another blow to U.S. plans to pacify Iraq by improving basic services.William Taylor, a U.S. diplomat who oversees Iraqi reconstruction efforts, said the country's violent insurgency had created a "security premium," gobbling up money that otherwise would have been spent to provide clean water, electricity and sanitation for Iraqis.... [*]
2 years in, and those wacky Iraqis still don't have the power and water they had when the worst dictator since Gengis Khan enslaved them. You gotta love 'em!
Not only that some 91 Iraqis were killed in 2 days on bombings [*]. That's real security, don't you think?
In Iraq it's not guns v. butter, it's neither.
Comments
It wasn't Ghengis but his grandson Hulagu Khan who captured Baghdad (in 1258).
http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/sources/baghdad.htm
But it's hard to claim Saddam Hussein was that bad a leader these days, and if you did then from an Iraqi point of view I think his biggest crime would be the Iran-Iraq war, which from American point of view was when he was doing the right thing of course.
The US propaganda image of Saddam has his worst crime as the attack on "his own people", the Kurds. From an Iraqi point of view the Kurds had it coming because they sided with the Iranians in the war and Kurds aren't really Iraqis anyway (which the Kurds would agree with).
Why is Saddam such a tremendous bad guy? Because he was a dictator? This is an arab state ok? Being a dictator is the norm.
Posted by: DavidByron | February 21, 2005 09:28 AM