“Two years of occupation…for God sake where is the rebuilding, where the hell are these billions donated to Iraq? Even not 1% improvement in services and electricity! They say again and again the terrorists are to blame and I would accept this, but why they do not protect these facilities? Do the American camps have cuts of electricity? No, no, and nobody will allow this to happen...but poor Iraqis, nobody would be sorry for them if they burn with the hell of summer, small kids and old men they get dehydrated because no electricity, no cold water, etc."The billions are going to build massive permanent military bases in Iraq (14 at last count) and to fortify the so-called "Green Zone" so that American officials and their contractor buddies and their private armies can have the illusion of normal; going into the pockets of corrupt officials; going to pay for mercenaries to do what the US military is stretched too thin to do. Reconstruction for Iraqis?? You must be kidding. That would require some outside-the-box thinking, some shift in priorities that is obviously beyond the capability of our present civilian leadership, entrenched as they are in their fool's vision of empire.
Oh, and the Army has declined to release their recruitment numbers for last month until they figure out how to put a spin on their failing efforts. Not enough troops; no stomach for a draft that would be a political disaster. This ought to get interesting real fast.
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