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question for alex
    #5133862 - 01/03/06 12:55 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

would you prefer the US withdraw from iraq or maintain its presence there?


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5133872 - 01/03/06 12:59 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

alex123

I don't know who this Alex123 is. Do you mean Alex213?

would you prefer the US withdraw from iraq

Yes.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Alex213]
    #5133882 - 01/03/06 01:02 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

unless i'm mistaken, alex123 is the name you used to post under.

alex, what do you think would happen in iraq if the US pulled out?

also... this thread isn't just for alex231, but anyone who'd like to respond.


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5134013 - 01/03/06 02:36 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

It has gotten to the point that I no longer care what happens to Iraq if we pullout. We cant stay there forever. What happens...happens.

It is time the Iraqi's start taking responsibility for their own country; and if they are incapable of defending it, either from enemies abroad or from within, then they don't deserve to have their own country. The United States will just have to sit back and let the natural order of things run their course.

We cant stay their forever.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5134043 - 01/03/06 03:27 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

unless i'm mistaken

I'm sorry you must be mistaken. I've never heard of him. If you want to discuss this more take it to off topic as it's got nothing to do with politics.

alex, what do you think would happen in iraq if the US pulled out?


It's anybody's guess. That's why you don't launch wars in the first place unless you absolutely have to.

My guess is it would deflate the insurgency.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Alex213]
    #5134201 - 01/03/06 07:23 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

It's anybody's guess.

so you have no prediction?

would things become more stable or less so? more violent or less so?


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5134300 - 01/03/06 09:00 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Did you see the last line of my previous post?

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Alex213]
    #5134315 - 01/03/06 09:12 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

you're an angry fella aren't you?

you sure you're not the same guy as alex123?


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Alex213]
    #5134319 - 01/03/06 09:16 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

if the insurgency would be deflated by the united states leaving iraq, for what purpose does the current administration maintain a presence there? it's expensive, in terms of lives, dollars, and votes. if you are correct that a pullout would deflate the insurgency, and presumably, military commanders with more information than you also realize this, for what purpose would they wish to keep troops in iraq?


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5134321 - 01/03/06 09:17 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

you're an angry fella aren't you?


I'm a sweetheart. Your post simply didn't seem to take into account I'd said the insurgency would deflate so presumably you missed that bit.

you sure you're not the same guy as alex123?

Never heard of him.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5134455 - 01/03/06 10:19 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

What is the point? It is no secret the left doesn't care what happens in Iraq as long as America loses. They aren't hard to see through.


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5134781 - 01/03/06 12:48 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

I don't really see how the right really cares what happens in Iraq either!

You have torn the joint apart, promised reconstruction, then bombed some more, built some nice permanent bases to forward project your power into the region, and now you are on to the next target...

Good job! :thumbup:


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Prajna]
    #5134996 - 01/03/06 01:40 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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Prajna said:
I don't really see how the right really cares what happens in Iraq either!




The right most definitely wants Iraq to succeed. How is that even in question?


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5135069 - 01/03/06 01:58 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

If the right cared enough about Iraq succeeding, they would stick it out and make sure it gets back up on its feet.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5135103 - 01/03/06 02:05 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Ummm, what exactly have you guys done for Iraq?

I don't consider destroying what little infrastructure they had left, creating an environment that welcomes foreign terrorists and foreign influence...(alqueda and Iran)..., and killing between 25 - 100 thousand people to be a real boon to their society...

They now have a Shiite majority government that will probably align itself to the theocracy in Iran, and eventually lead it into a civil war for years to come...

Your president presented Iraq as a place to "fight them, so that we don't have to fight them here"...

How is that for caring about the Iraqi people?

Make their country into a battleground so that you are'nt fucking up your own neighborhood?

I know that you would probably support this, but I think the majority of your country has been misled...

So now that Iraq is a complete cluster fuck, and your troops have stable bases there and are safe, you will let the Iraqis degenerate into a giant power struggle for the vacuum...set them back to a point where it will take years to recover, and then move onto the next target...

You are now in a win-win situation, because you are the only stable power left in Iraq and if things there don't go you're way politically or economically you can very easily just re-insert yourself into the fray...

Tactically it's a great situation, but for the average Iraqi citizen it sucks, but then it shows that you don't really care about the Iraqi's at all anyway...

This whole "liberating" the Iraqi people thing is just a propaganda tool to gain public consent for an inhumane way of doing business...

It will work, but it is terrible...


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Prajna]
    #5135130 - 01/03/06 02:11 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

You didn't answer the question. Just typical rant that made the claim:

I don't really see how the right really cares what happens in Iraq either!


and instead of justifying the position decided to answer:

Ummm, what exactly have you guys done for Iraq?

It is no mystery your kind doesn't see one thing good in Iraq, we know that. Spare us the endless doomsday analysis. Here is another chance to answer the question....

The right most definitely wants Iraq to succeed. How is that even in question?

Can you answer that?


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5135456 - 01/03/06 03:45 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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looner2 said:
You didn't answer the question. Just typical rant that made the claim:

I don't really see how the right really cares what happens in Iraq either!


and instead of justifying the position decided to answer:

Ummm, what exactly have you guys done for Iraq?

It is no mystery your kind doesn't see one thing good in Iraq, we know that. Spare us the endless doomsday analysis. Here is another chance to answer the question....

The right most definitely wants Iraq to succeed. How is that even in question?

Can you answer that?




I just did!

sheesh...

No looner the people in power most definitely DO NOT CARE if the Iraqis "succeed", Iraq is a country under occupation who is being physically molded into being exactly what the U.S wants it to be...and the U.S government will have it no other way.

Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe the Iraqis don't want a democracy?

What if they want an Islamic theocracy like that which exists in Iran?

Would America except that?

What would you say if the Iraqis wanted a Communist government, with nuclear weapons, and no trade at all with the U.S at all?

Is it really up to them?

Their idea of "success", doesn't mean shit to the American government...

Your problem is that you cannot even FATHOM that there are people out there who DO NOT want it "the American way"...

America has an AGENDA in Iraq, and that trumps anything that the Iraqis might want...you of all people should know that...

It is soon to be nothing more than an American base for further deployment into the middle east...

Read the PNAC doctrine man, it's all spelled out there in black and white, this is not a "war on terrorism", it is an attempt to create a "Pax Americana", plain and simple...

And again, those currently in power DO NOT CARE about the "success" of the other countries in the plan, they only care about the "success" of America...


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Prajna]
    #5135492 - 01/03/06 03:59 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Iraq isn't being molded the way Americans seem fit , this isn't some country we annexed years ago , this is an ongoing war , PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THERE LIVES, and noo one should ever utter the words " i dont care what happens" because if you could care less about Iraq then you are disgracing and not acknowledging the sacrifice that the soldiers have made. " it is soon to be an American base " - The Iraqi people are not pushovers , they dont accept it laying down. If anything they will always ( or at least until future generations ) be a half constituent of the American people. " Your problem is that you cannot even FATHOM that there are people out there who DO NOT want it "the American way"... " in regards to that statement i believe that you are absolutely right, they have there own agenda as well and believe that before any sort of " American way " lifestyle there will be a civil war. Although if you would like please digress on how the American Way ( the ideology NOT the actual way we sadly live our lives ) is such a bad concept ?

if you would like to discuss something pertinent to the Iraq war (\ without going back and forth at each other ) i suggest you work on an exit plan , or an alternative. otherwise you are ranting , and no one wants to hear it. AND IF YOU DIDN'T VOTE IN THE LAST ELECTION THAN PLEASE DO NOT ADD TO THIS CONVERSATION.


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: elaspeinreason]
    #5135672 - 01/03/06 04:57 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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this is an ongoing war , PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THERE LIVES, and noo one should ever utter the words " i dont care what happens" because if you could care less about Iraq then you are disgracing and not acknowledging the sacrifice that the soldiers have made. "




This logic scares me and quite frankly i see a lot of people with this code of thought. To me it doesnt seem right that the government is running our military into the ground. Situation in Iraq is not improving and in fact getting worse. Our total troop resources in Iraq about 150,000 troops is too small to police a country the size of Texas.

Second of all the absolute misuse of National Guard is ridiculous. National Guard and reserve units are supposed to stay at home and help natural disasters. Not be ran into the ground in Iraq. The complete waste of money Iraq has become is phenomenal... All this military equipment being degraded and depleted.

When 4 Iraqi Ragheads get a hold of a left over 105 mm artillery piece and rig it to a 30$ cellphone and destroy a 5 million dollar M1Abrahams or a Stryker. Who do you think will eventually win the war.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: elaspeinreason]
    #5135706 - 01/03/06 05:04 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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Iraq isn't being molded the way Americans seem fit , this isn't some country we annexed years ago , this is an ongoing war , PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THERE LIVES, and noo one should ever utter the words " i dont care what happens" because if you could care less about Iraq then you are disgracing and not acknowledging the sacrifice that the soldiers have made. " it is soon to be an American base " - The Iraqi people are not pushovers , they dont accept it laying down. If anything they will always ( or at least until future generations ) be a half constituent of the American people. " Your problem is that you cannot even FATHOM that there are people out there who DO NOT want it "the American way"... " in regards to that statement i believe that you are absolutely right, they have there own agenda as well and believe that before any sort of " American way " lifestyle there will be a civil war. Although if you would like please digress on how the American Way ( the ideology NOT the actual way we sadly live our lives ) is such a bad concept ?

if you would like to discuss something pertinent to the Iraq war (\ without going back and forth at each other ) i suggest you work on an exit plan , or an alternative. otherwise you are ranting , and no one wants to hear it. AND IF YOU DIDN'T VOTE IN THE LAST ELECTION THAN PLEASE DO NOT ADD TO THIS CONVERSATION.




I am not even from your country...

Does that mean I am not allowed to have an opinion?

It's an open forum man, and I will rant where I can, because people need to hear the other side sometimes, just because you don't agree with what I have to say doesn't mean that I have no right to say it...

I welcome disagreement, it changes my outlook and makes me a better person. Perhaps you should read the PNAC doctrine and then get back to me...

Because the conquest of Iraq has little to do with the Iraqi people and more to do with world domination...

You may not want to admit it but there is more to this than "the war on terrorism" or "WMD" or "liberation"...

And the sad fact of the matter is that the american government has little mind for the pawns that are destroyed for this goal...It is not me that doesn't care, it's them...


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Prajna]
    #5135777 - 01/03/06 05:21 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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Prajna said:
I just did!




Did not. Again, no answer except a huge illogical rant. Your emotions are flying out of control, you need to relax. The right wants Iraqi's to succeed, and that success is built off of a few simple goals that have been said time and time again.

1. peace
2. democracy
3. freedom

That is victory to the right, and that is the ideal situation for the Iraqi's.

Again, can you show me where the right has said they don't want Iraq to succeed? Or have you given up on that silly statement?

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No looner the people in power most definitely DO NOT CARE if the Iraqis "succeed",




So its all about if we "care" about if Iraqi's succeed or not? Thank God we have the world breathing down our necks, and undermining the goals of a successful Iraq because they feel America, deep down doesn't really care what happens to Iraq, even if what we are doing is in their best interest. Like I said before, it is not about caring it is about the right wanting Iraq to succeed, capish?

Think long and hard before you post again, because I won't be able to deal with another 90 degree shift in the midst of a discussion that continues to not make any sense.

8th grade rants need not apply.


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5135804 - 01/03/06 05:27 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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1. peace
2. democracy
3. freedom

That is victory to the right, and that is the ideal situation for the Iraqi's.

Again, can you show me where the right has said they don't want Iraq to succeed? Or have you given up on that silly statement?




Too bad none of those 3 things will happen if we do not rebuild what we destroyed. If the current administration has decided not to give the money it pledged to rebuilding, how can you say the right is concerned with the success of Iraq?

This is the third time in this thread I've asked you this question.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Redstorm]
    #5135824 - 01/03/06 05:32 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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Redstorm said:
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1. peace
2. democracy
3. freedom

That is victory to the right, and that is the ideal situation for the Iraqi's.

Again, can you show me where the right has said they don't want Iraq to succeed? Or have you given up on that silly statement?




Too bad none of those 3 things will happen if we do not rebuild what we destroyed. If the current administration has decided not to give the money it pledged to rebuilding, how can you say the right is concerned with the success of Iraq?

This is the third time in this thread I've asked you this question.





What money we pledged to Iraq? We've been paying billions for Iraq's re-construction.

But that is beside the point. How can you not believe a successful Iraq is a huge political boost to the right? If Iraq fails, bush fails and the vision of bringing democracy to the middle east. How is this even debatable? The right has political stock in Iraq succeeding, duh.


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5135898 - 01/03/06 05:52 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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U.S. Has End in Sight on Iraq Rebuilding
Documents Show Much of the Funding Diverted to Security, Justice System and Hussein Inquiry

By Ellen Knickmeyer
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Monday, January 2, 2006; A01

BAGHDAD -- The Bush administration does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February, officials say. The decision signals the winding down of an $18.4 billion U.S. rebuilding effort in which roughly half of the money was eaten away by the insurgency, a buildup of Iraq's criminal justice system and the investigation and trial of Saddam Hussein.

Just under 20 percent of the reconstruction package remains unallocated. When the last of the $18.4 billion is spent, U.S. officials in Baghdad have made clear, other foreign donors and the fledgling Iraqi government will have to take up what authorities say is tens of billions of dollars of work yet to be done merely to bring reliable electricity, water and other services to Iraq's 26 million people.

"The U.S. never intended to completely rebuild Iraq," Brig. Gen. William McCoy, the Army Corps of Engineers commander overseeing the work, told reporters at a recent news conference. In an interview this past week, McCoy said: "This was just supposed to be a jump-start."

Since the reconstruction effort began in 2003, midcourse changes by U.S. officials have shifted at least $2.5 billion from the rebuilding of Iraq's decrepit electrical, education, water, sewage, sanitation and oil networks to build new security forces for Iraq and to construct a nationwide system of medium- and maximum-security prisons and detention centers that meet international standards, according to reconstruction officials and documents. Many of the changes were forced by an insurgency more fierce than the United States had expected when its troops entered Iraq.

In addition, from 14 percent to 22 percent of the cost of every nonmilitary reconstruction project goes toward security against insurgent attacks, according to reconstruction officials in Baghdad. In Washington, the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction puts the security costs of each project at 25 percent.

U.S. officials more than doubled the size of the Iraqi army, which they initially planned to build to only 40,000 troops. An item-by-item inspection of reallocated funds reveals how priorities were shifted rapidly to fund initiatives addressing the needs of a new Iraq: a 300-man Iraqi hostage-rescue force that authorities say stages operations almost every night in Baghdad; more than 600 Iraqis trained to dispose of bombs and protect against suicide bombs; four battalions of Iraqi special forces to protect the oil and electric networks; safe houses and armored cars for judges; $7.8 million worth of bulletproof vests for firefighters; and a center in the city of Kirkuk for treating victims of torture.

At the same time, the hundreds of Americans and Iraqis who have devoted themselves to the reconstruction effort point to 3,600 projects that the United States has completed or intends to finish before the $18.4 billion runs out around the end of 2006. These include work on 900 schools, construction of hospitals and nearly 160 health care centers and clinics, and repairs on or construction of nearly 800 miles of highways, city streets and village roads.

But the insurgency has set back efforts across the board. In two of the most crucial areas, electricity and oil production, relentless sabotage has kept output at or below prewar levels despite the expenditure of hundreds of millions of American dollars and countless man-hours. Oil production stands at roughly 2 million barrels a day, compared with 2.6 million before U.S. troops entered Iraq in March 2003, according to U.S. government statistics.

The national electrical grid has an average daily output of 4,000 megawatts, about 400 megawatts less than its prewar level.

Iraqis nationwide receive on average less than 12 hours of power a day. For residents of Baghdad, it was six hours a day last month, according to a U.S. count, though many residents say that figure is high.

The Americans, said Zaid Saleem, 26, who works at a market in Baghdad, "are the best in destroying things but they are the worst in rebuilding."
The Price of Security

In a speech on Aug. 8, 2003, President Bush promised more for Iraq.

"In a lot of places, the infrastructure is as good as it was at prewar levels, which is satisfactory, but it's not the ultimate aim. The ultimate aim is for the infrastructure to be the best in the region," Bush said.

U.S. officials at the time promised a steady supply of 6,000 megawatts of electricity and a return to oil production output of 2.5 million barrels a day, within months.

But the insurgency changed everything.

"Good morning, gentlemen," a security contractor in shirt-sleeves said crisply late last week, launching into a security briefing in what amounts to a reconstruction war room in Baghdad's Green Zone, home to much of the Iraqi government.

Other private security contractors hunched over desks in front of him, learning the state of play for what would be roughly 200 missions that day to serve the 865 U.S. reconstruction projects underway -- taking inspectors to work sites, guarding convoys of building materials or escorting dignitaries to see works in progress, among other jobs.

A screen overhead detailed the previous day's 70 or so attacks on private, military and Iraqi security forces. The briefer noted bombs planted in potholes, rigged in cars, hidden in the vests of suicide attackers. There were also mortar attacks and small-arms fire. The briefer also noted miles of roads rendered impassable or where travel was inadvisable owing to attacks, and some of the previous day's toll in terms of dead and wounded.

Colored blocks on the screen marked convoys en route, each tracked by transponders and equipped with panic buttons.

To one side, a TV monitor scrolled out the day's news, including McCoy's remark to reporters that December was the worst month on record for Iraqi contractors working on reconstruction, with more killed, wounded or kidnapped than during any other month since the U.S. invasion.

"For every three steps forward, we take one step back. Those are the conditions we face," said Col. Bjarne Iverson, commander of the reconstruction operations center. He followed with a comment often used by American authorities in Iraq: "There are people who just want us to fail here."

The heavy emphasis on security, and the money it would cost, had not been anticipated in the early months of the U.S. occupation. In January 2004, after the first disbursements of the $18.4 billion reconstruction package, the United States planned only $3.2 billion to build up Iraq's army and police. But as the insurgency intensified, money was shifted from other sectors, including more than $1 billion earmarked for electricity, to build a police force and army capable of combating foreign and domestic guerrillas.

In addition to training and equipping police and soldiers, money has been spent for special operations and quick-response forces, commandos and other special police, as well as public-order brigades, hostage-rescue forces, infrastructure guards and other specialized units.

In the process, the United States will spend $437 million on border fortresses and guards, about $100 million more than the amount dedicated to roads, bridges and public buildings, including schools. Education programs have been allocated $99 million; the United States is spending $107 million to build a secure communications network for security forces.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were shifted to fund elections and to take Iraq through four changes of government. Funds were also reallocated to provide a $767 million increase in spending on Iraq's justice system. The money has gone toward building or renovating 10 medium- and maximum-security prisons -- early plans called for four prisons -- and for detention centers nationwide.

Tens of millions of dollars more are going to pay for courts, prosecutors and investigations. Millions are going to create safe houses for judges and for witness protection programs.

The criminal justice spending has been intertwined with the drive to try Hussein. The costs have been high, including $128 million to exhume and examine at least five mass grave sites.
A Gap in Perspective

The shifts in allocations have led Stuart Bowen, the inspector general in charge of tracking the $18.4 billion, to talk of a "reconstruction gap," or the difference between what Iraqis and Americans expected from the U.S. reconstruction effort at first and what they are seeing now.

The inspector general's office is conducting an audit to quantify the shortfall between expectations and performance, spokesman Jim Mitchell said.

McCoy, the Army Corps of Engineers commander for reconstruction, cites a poll conducted earlier last year that found less than 30 percent of Iraqis knew that any reconstruction efforts were underway. The percentage has since risen to more than 40 percent, McCoy said.

"It is easy for the Americans to say, 'We are doing reconstruction in Iraq,' and we hear that. But to make us believe it, they should show us where this reconstruction is," said Mustafa Sidqi Murthada, owner of a men's clothing store in Baghdad. "Maybe they are doing this reconstruction for them in the Green Zone. But this is not for the Iraqis."

"Believe me, they are not doing this," he said, "unless they consider rebuilding of their military bases reconstruction."

U.S. officials say comparatively minor sabotage to distribution systems is keeping Iraqis from seeing the gains from scores of projects to increase electricity generation and oil production. To showcase a rebuilt school or government building, meanwhile, is to invite insurgents to bomb it.

If 2006 brings political stability and an easing of the insurgency, Americans say, the distribution systems can be fairly easily repaired.

"The good news is this investment is not in any way lost; they're there," said Dan Speckhard, the director of the U.S. reconstruction management office in Iraq. "They will pay off, they will be felt, if not this month, then six months down the road."

While the Bush administration is not seeking any new reconstruction funds for Iraq, commanders here have military discretionary funds they can use for small reconstruction projects. The U.S. Agency for International Development is expected to undertake some building projects, as it does in 80 other countries, with money from the foreign appropriations bill.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200370.html?sub=new

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Redstorm]
    #5135908 - 01/03/06 05:54 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

I figured that is what you meant. You made it sound as if we didn't spend billions already.

Is it better to continually dump money into them or force them to get in gear?

I'm sure it could be argued both ways.


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5135910 - 01/03/06 05:55 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

I think we need to finish what we started. We trashed the place, so now we get to clean it up.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Redstorm]
    #5136115 - 01/03/06 07:00 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

If I were an Iraqi I would just want you gone.  I think it would fall into the category of - "Haven't you done enough already?"

Face it looner, you guys dropped the ball on this one. 

Under Saddam there was no "insurgency" to fuck things up, the Americans brought that.  It's sad, but I bet there are many there who talk about Saddam's regime as "the good old days"... :shake:

But that's okay America will be onto Iran soon anyway, and then the public can forget about all this failure and focus on another exciting new war! 

Sad man, really sad...


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: Prajna]
    #5136494 - 01/03/06 08:31 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

Prajna said:
Face it looner, you guys dropped the ball on this one.




Yes, when the arguments get a little too rough for the young moonbats, lets go back to the tried and true method of whining about how bad the war in Iraq was.

But if you insist, you are still wrong. Removing the chance of state sponsored terrorism ala WMDs and Saddam is enough of a reason. Trying to rebuild Iraq was something I was never for and don't agree with now. It is a nice humanitarian gesture, but the world still pukes on themselves over it. Shouldn't even begun it so we could hear how horrible we were for not cleaning up.


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: looner2]
    #5136520 - 01/03/06 08:43 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Time alone will prove one of us right either way, why should I even bother arguing with you about it?  You'll just dismiss everything I say as the ramblings of a lunatic anyway...lol.

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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5137177 - 01/04/06 12:05 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

has the topic of the thread been completely forgotten by now?

the question is:

would you prefer that the US withdrew from iraq? yes or no?

what do you think would happen? would this make life better or worse for the people of iraq?


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Re: question for alex123 [Re: wilshire]
    #5137904 - 01/04/06 08:38 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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would you prefer that the US withdrew from iraq? yes or no?



Yes, but only in the context of a broad-based shift in forign policy. If we're just pulling out of Iraq so as to get ready for Iran or Syria then I could care less.

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what do you think would happen? would this make life better or worse for the people of iraq?



Many things could happen. I don't think it's overwhelmingly clear that the Iraqi people would be worse off if US troops left, though it's certainly possible. If I had to venture a guess I would say that things would get slightly worse or stay about the same. Even if they were to get more than slightly worse I would advise a pullout (again only in conjunction with a broad-based foreign policy shift). If you could prove to me that the US leaving would result in a catastrophic civil war then I would probably agree with leaving the troops in for x amount of time (x being some defined amount of time, perhaps based on an achievable goal *gasp*).


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