Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Wednesday Dec 6th, 2006

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 12-06-2006

[MNJohnnie]

http://wbal.com/shows/elliott/story.asp?articleid=51443

A great email from Sean Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Bruce,

The caller that said described reconstruction efforts in Iraq can simply go to the Army Corps of Engineers website to find that he has been mislead:

From page 6 of the Iraqi Reconstruction Report:

Mr. Popps [Logistics Director] said it is first important to understand what the rebuilding team inherited. U.S. intelligence knew little about the actual state of Iraq's energy infrastructure and social service network. When the Army Corps of Engineers got on the ground, there was shock:

The three regional sewage treatments plants in greater Baghdad did not work; raw waste poured into the Tigris River and downstream through villages. SadrCity, the impoverished Shi'iteslum repressed by the ruling Sunni Ba'athParty, lacked any sewage system. "Some slam the Americans because there is sewage in SadrCity," said an incredulous Mr. Popps. "Please."

Few towns had a central supply of clean water.

The electrical grid suffered under 1950s technology and disrepair. Saddam Hussein starved the rest of the country of power to give the capital of 6 million about 20 hours a day.

The country lacked any primary health care facilities; hospitalsand schools were run down and lacked supplies. New hospitals had not been built in 20 years. More than half the public healthcenters remained closed. Of 13,000 schools, more than 10,000 needed significant renovations.The Pentagon in 2003 summoned American firms to get reconstruction started in the absence of Iraqi ministries that could supervise and a private sector that was in shambles under Saddam's totalitarian rule. "The ministries were jammed with people who did nothing," Mr. Popps said. "They sat around and smoked and drank tea and held 'worry beads.' It was an economy based on incompetence and corruption.“Today, the Pentagon is handing out a score sheet:

Six new primary care facilities, with 66 more under construction; 11 hospitals renovated; more than 800 schools fixed up; more than 300 police stations and facilities and 248 border control forts.

Added 407,000 cubic meters per day of water treatment; a new sewage-treatment system for Basra; work on Baghdad's three plants continues; oil production exceeds the 2002 level of 2 million barrels a day by 500,000.

The Ministry of Electricity now sends power to Baghdad for four to eight hours a day, and 10 to 12 for the rest of the country. Iraqis are now free to buy consumer items such as generators, which provide some homes with power around-the-clock.Mr. Popps said all this was accomplished despite a concerted effort by terrorists to bomb construction sites and kill workers.

Imagine if the US military had control of the Middle Eastern media like the jihadist have over the courtier press here? Our problems would've been over years ago.

Best,

Sean

For more details:

http://www.grd.usace.army.mil/news/releases/20061127.pdf

[MNJohnnie]

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Winston Churchill

[NeoCaveman]

IBTP

[NeoCaveman]

So have you heard about the Iraqi Surrender Group.

[rottndog]

hERE!

[MNJohnnie]

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[ChicagoConservative27]

Morning!

[MarkLevinFan]

Yhello!

[ChicagoConservative27]

Thank me!

[snowrip]

You had the choice to vote for appeasement, or to vote for war. You have voted for appeasement, and you shall get war.

Winston Churchill to Parliament, 1940

[MNJohnnie]

Actually I believe that was 1938 by 1940 the war had started

[ChicagoConservative27]

Of course Russert says its our last chance, we must invite Syria into the process, and give them the Golan Heights as a reward, and Iran of course.I'm living the twilight zone.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Of course Russert says its our last chance, we must invite Syria into the process, and give them the Golan Heights as a reward, and Iran of course.I'm living the twilight zone.

[ct_libertarian]

Thanks for the ping, MNJohnnie

			New Teams Are On The Field Punk A$$ B1t(h3$ Can Go Home To Mommy GAME ON!

[MarkLevinFan]

I'm welcome!

[mewzilla]

I'm living the twilight zone.

Or the 1930s.

[MaestroLC]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009348

[MaestroLC]

Your site is back, and Mark has podcasting... Life is good. :)

[mewzilla]

And while we're on the subject of surrender monkeys, look who the Breck Girl just hired...

For anyone who missed it...

Edwards taps former Rep.Bonior to lead potential campaign

[lormand]

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