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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald@Sep 30 2004, 05:28 PM
Bases for argument?
A great article on the future of the military in Iraq. Also an interesting note that the two latest beheading were contractors working on construction of these bases. If a lot of these contactors are working on these numerous bases being constructed, who is working on the infrastructure and much needed facilities in Iraq? Is this a good reason for the unrest in the region? Where's the rebuilding of Iraq when it appears that a dozen new military bases are being errected faster than the facilities the people need to survive?
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Sort of like the "enduring" bases in Saudi Arabia, here today, gone tomorrow.
The car bomb du jour in Baghdad today blew up a ceremony celebrating the reconstruction of a water treatment plant I believe. Projects like that are happening but reconstruction is small compared to what they had projected would happen by this point.
The insurgency is targeting reconstruction projects and assets have been diverted from reconstruction to defence of reconstruction. The goal of the insurgency is to destroy reconstruction so anger flips back to the USA on the lack of security platform. Pretty obvious.
No one in their right mind - except Ann Coulter - would argue that the USA hasn't bungled the post-war situation and is now trying to play catch-up. Even Bush has conceded "miscalculations."
EDIT: An update on the bomb today at a sewage treatment plant opening ceremony:
Three bombs exploded at a neighbourhood public works celebration Thursday in western Baghdad, killing 35 children and seven adults, officials said. The children reportedly had been attracted to the area by U.S. troops handing out candy.
"The Americans called us, they told us, 'Come here, come here,' asking us if we wanted sweets," said 12-year-old Abdel Rahman Dawoud, lying naked in a hospital bed with shrapnel embedded all over his body. "We went beside them, then a car exploded."
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpos...19-58deb369cbb1
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