Water supplies to Baghdad have also been cut off for days at a time, with summertime pressures on key systems said to be more intense than ever.
The ministry blamed poor maintenance, fuel shortages, sabotage by insurgents and rising demand for the problems, and said some provinces hold onto supplies.
The US Army told the BBC that Iraq must now take charge of fixing the problems.
The general in charge of helping Iraq rebuild its infrastructure, Michael Walsh, said that although Iraqi authorities only have one-quarter of the money needed for reconstruction, solving the problem was now up to them.
so basically we are wasting billions for what again?
2007-08-07 08:59:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Waste? $15 billion a month goes straight from the US taxpayers to Halliburton and the war making industry. They would say this is good business and very sound strategy. Profits have never been better. If all of Iraq is destitute for food, water, fuel and electricity, they are much more likely to sign over the rights to their future oil reserves to Exxon.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0518/p01s01-usfp.html
The Generals who disagreed with this plundering strategy were all replaced so Bush could get one who would sign off on this dishonorable and disgraceful strategy of his. I'm quite sure Patraeus will say the plan is starting to work and we just need a couple more years to give it a chance. "Stay the course" has just been dressed up in sheep's clothing to pull the wool over our eyes yet again.
2007-08-07 09:07:51 · answer #1 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is one of the benchmarks, and it will be included in the report (or should be). That very fact, the state of Iraq's infrastructure, has been considered in past reports, and as you point out several areas do receive failing grades.
2007-08-07 16:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your main problem is taking anything from the BBC. They make the left wing loonies in the US look like wimps when it comes to bashing the war effort.
2007-08-07 16:07:30 · answer #3 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Kind of like the billions we spent to get them an hour of electricity each day...
2007-08-07 16:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by Memnoch 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
no water, no electricty, no govt., but other than that we are seeing great success in Iraq. We had less dead soldiers last month...so what if we have 26 dead in seven days in August.
2007-08-07 16:04:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Petraitys is a toady.
He will repeat the lines his masters give him.
he will fall on his sword if necessary.
Nothing will contradict the Neo-con line.
2007-08-07 16:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋