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Chaos doesn't drown out sounds of recovery in Iraq
USA TODAY ^
| Thursday, August 28, 2003
| By Jim Michaels and Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
Posted on 08/27/2003 11:46:09 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BAGHDAD
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: goodnews; iraq; rebuildingiraq
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
A special ping for you :-)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Chaos doesn't drown out sounds of recovery in Iraq
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posted on
08/27/2003 11:47:58 PM PDT
by
boxerblues
(God Bless the 101st, stay safe, stay alert and watch your backs)
To: xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ladyinred; Angel; ..
To: JohnHuang2
Lying DemocRats won't drown out the sounds of recovery, either.
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posted on
08/27/2003 11:49:07 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
Bump!
To: JohnHuang2
A half-dozen Iraqi businessmen meet regularly to share kebabs and chew over the issues of the day in the office of one of the men on Harithiyah Street in Baghdad. To a man, they say the U.S.-led coalition is botching the effort to restore order.But asked who should lead the country, they are equally unanimous. "I would recommend an American," says Kaldoun Abdulatif Othman, 48, an engineer. The local leadership is too divided, he says.
Sounds like Philadelphia, circa 1787, to me.
To: JohnHuang2
Baghdadis are getting married, and children are having graduation parties. Restaurants are crowded. Market stalls are brimming with fruit and vegetables. The city's notorious traffic is back. Refrigerators, boxes of flat-screen TVs and washing machines are piled up as stores hold sidewalk sales throughout the city. Couples sit crammed into booths in the Moonlight cafe and talk over soft drinks and sandwiches. Hundreds of traffic police officers in white shirts are back at their posts, gesturing wildly but in vain at the chaotic traffic. Electricity has come back slowly, though in most of the city it's on for three hours, then off for three hours.
So that's what QUAGMIRE is like! ;-)
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posted on
08/28/2003 12:05:47 AM PDT
by
kayak
(God bless President Bush, our military, and our nation!)
To: kayak
Yes! It's a terrible Quagmire! A deepening Quagmire! ;-)
To: kayak
Oh, and don't forget the Afghan Quagmire, too! My, my, so many Quagmires, so little time ;-)
To: JohnHuang2
:-)
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posted on
08/28/2003 12:12:02 AM PDT
by
kayak
(God bless President Bush, our military, and our nation!)
To: JohnHuang2
But asked who should lead the country, they are equally unanimous. "I would recommend an American," says Kaldoun Abdulatif Othman, 48, an engineer. The local leadership is too divided, he says. Hmmmm .. they don't recommend the UN .. they don't even recommend a fellow Iraqi
Who the recommend is an American .. That speaks volumes of who these Iraqi people trust
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posted on
08/28/2003 12:12:32 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
To: Mo1
Hmmmm .. they don't recommend the UN .. Yes -- and wait, just wait, till those 9 bozos running for prez hear about this! ;-)
To: JohnHuang2
These are the kinds of signs that matter.
To: Prodigal Son
Very true, amigo.
To: JohnHuang2
What a delightful story to read before going to bed. Thanks.
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posted on
08/28/2003 12:16:55 AM PDT
by
AHerald
To: AHerald
It was a pleasure to post. It's a break from the usual media gloom and doom on anything dealing with Iraq.
To: AHerald
And G'nite -- sleep well.
To: JohnHuang2
Yes -- and wait, just wait, till those 9 bozos running for prez hear about this! ;-) I wonder if these Iraqis trust a republican or a democrat ;0)
Considering that Clinton hung them out to dry for 8 years .. they might not be to favorable to the 9 circus clowns
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posted on
08/28/2003 12:55:27 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
To: Mo1
Excellent point ;-)
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