Brigade gets water flowing in central Iraq (Good News from Iraq!!)

Stars & Stripes, European edition, ^ | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | Ron Jensen

[xzins]

ping

[Coop]

Yet another job well done by our fine military!

[rhombus]

What a mess! What a quaqmire! What the hell is the exit strategy! /sarcasm

[Mike davis]

Good works, we are all about good works, now if we could just get some of these stories on the nightly news.

[xzins]

I don't know if any of the talkinghead socialists like Peter Jennings have noticed but there is an overall strategy that is clearly being followed.

The Military's ongoing Offensive in the the War in Iraq is proceeding WELL on approximately Five Fronts in Iraq

1. Military rooting out of thugs/terrorists. (The hard work of our brave warriors.)
2. Infrastructure reconstruction/renewal coordinated by our Civil Affairs personnel (as in this article)
3. Political reconstruction coordinated by Bremer & Staff in building new local, regional, and national governments, and armies.
4. Economic reconstruction coordinated again by Bremer & staff in encouraging/revitalizing economy and formerly moribund industrial/petroleum output.
5. Institutional reconstruction revitalizing/renewing medical, educational, and social service institutions; civil affairs teamed with medical and other assets. (Article last week on training new methods to Iraqi obstetricians is an example.)

[xzins]

see #6

[OXENinFLA]

Great find!

[MEG33]

Good news story.Thanks!

[Held_to_Ransom]

The real secret of the Roman Empire was that the army built the roads and aquaducts, and that the locals found these to be well worth the cost of paying for them, politically and financially.

Of course, the other thing the Romans did was cut up the Kurds into four separate nations, and the area was always a pain in the butt...

[xzins]

Divide and conquer.

I truly hope we end up with about 10 or 11 states in the new Iraqi Confederate Government.

[StriperSniper]

What a quaqmire!

You mean they left all those new spigots open? ;-)

[HiJinx]

Excellent find, chaplain.

Thanks a bunch!

[Blood of Tyrants]

M7y suggestion is that we not stay one day longer than our troops in Kosovo.

[snopercod]

Belling (sitting in for Rush) just related a story from Southern Iraq.

They had a big ribbon-cutting ceremony when they opened up a brand new water-treatment plant down there. Big celebration, lots of Iraqi's and Americans there, but not one member of the US media.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Tom Daschle is saddened, deeply saddened.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you, xzins. Awesome article.

For Fritz and other members of the Army National Guard unit, that means drilling 250 water wells throughout the area between the cities of Baghdad, Fallujah and Tikrit — a region known as the Sunni Triangle. They want to tap into an underground reservoir that can change the lives of the people who live here.

“When we give it to them, it will be the first good water they’ve had in their lives,” said Fritz, 55..

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[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[blam]

Good news bump.