Twotribes
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ORIGINAL: Knuckles_85 quote:
The US and UK should have immediately started to sort out Iraq, putting back power, water, infrastructure...generally improving the local populations standard of living...not just being focused on getting the oil out the door. Kinda hard when as soon as you get a grid up the insurgents either destroy it or kill all the contractor. Well more to the point, they DID. Readsome rel facts not just the garbage the MSM puts out. The basic infrastructure of all those things was in ruins, NOT from american and coalition actions but from the inaction for 15 years of Saddam Hussein. The reality is that Iraq HAS better water, better elctric, TV and every other service BECAUSE of America. It can only get so good though because a small minority ( less than 20 percent of the country ( in basicly 3 Provinces) cant accept the lost power. They blow crap up, they cut and interrupt service, they bomb schools and kill the people trying to make life better. 4 to 6 hours of electricity a day sounds horrible, and to us it is, but do a little research and you will find those are the same or better than before we invaded. You will find that the Military has spent BILLIONS on a ruined infrastructure and continues to spend on it to repair the attacks of "terrorists" and your " freedom" fighters. There was no " just get the oil out" and forget everyone else. However, guess where the Iraqi government gets its money from? It aint taxes, it is oil sales. No oil flow, no money for repairs, for improvements, for salaries, for government functions like hospitals and emergancy services. So the question becomes.... I have 10 dollars. with that I can fix the power lines until the insurgents blow them up again and then I have nothing, OR I can hire guards and fix the oil lines, allowing me to MAKE money so that I can fix everything else.... I know which one I would chose.
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