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"millipede man" <millipede_man@millipede.net> wrote in message
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[MM: How many years have passed since moron GW Bush declared

accomplished"?]


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/c/a/2006/05/24/MNGLAJ16071.DTL

'
Violence aside, Baghdad is broken
Water runs only an hour a day, power is on for 4 hours, and sewage

runs

in the streets
Anna Badkhen, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Baghdad -- "Leaving aside security," Kassim the carpet salesman

rhetorically, "when you come home, what do you need?" He ticked

the

answers on the fingers on his right hand: "Electricity. Water.

"Getting any of this in Baghdad is a problem," he said.

[...]

Three years after the U.S. invasion, during which most of the

capital's infrastructure collapsed, rudimentary services here

sporadic at best.

Decades-old water treatment plants that were supposed to have been

fixed

during postwar reconstruction meet only 60 percent of Baghdad's

said Lt. Col. Chris Hall, whose unit, attached to the 101st

Division, is helping Iraqis rebuild power and water facilities.

Garbage chokes the city of 4.5 million people. Trash collection is
erratic or nonexistent, depending on which part of the city you

in.

Insurgents use heaps of garbage to hide roadside bombs. More than

garbage collectors have been killed in Baghdad in the past six

city officials say. Insurgents target them because they work for

government.

[...]

Garbage clogs sewage pipes, causing raw sewage to overflow into

streets and fill the air with the stench of decay. In the Shiite

of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad, residents live in dwellings

of bits of corrugated metal, chunks of concrete and rusted oil
canisters. Snowy white egrets skim the surface of putrid,

greenish-black

pools of sewage in the streets.

While much of the violence in Baghdad has taken place in the

part of the city, Sadr City is not immune. Five people were killed

there

Tuesday when a car bomb exploded at the entrance to a police

"It was a horrible scene," Hussein Abdul-Hady, a 20-year-old

told the Los Angeles Times. "Bodies without hands; people were

in chaos, screaming."

Throughout the city, scores of gas stations have shut down after

suicide

bombers began targeting them. Outside stations still open, lines

cars

stretch sometimes for more than a mile, waiting for gasoline that

quadrupled in price since before the invasion.

Food, for those who can afford it, is plentiful, but shopping is a

risky

endeavor. Many shop owners have shut their stores, fearing they

be

targeted by religious militias who stage brazen daytime

and

killings for no apparent reason other than their victims'

roots. Others have joined the mass exodus of Baghdad residents who

have

moved out of the city to flee the endemic violence.

[...]

In the predominantly Shiite, largely poverty-stricken eastern

religious leaders like the firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr

feed

off the popular disenchantment with the collapsed infrastructure,

using

it to draw support for their militias, said Col. Tom Vail,

of

the 506th Regimental Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division,

patrols this area.

[...]

U.S. and Iraqi officials say al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and militias

to

other Shiite clerics have infiltrated the national police. Some of

militias -- although no one has pointed specifically at

are

operating death squads, contributing to the sectarian violence

has

swept the country since the Feb. 22 bombing of the Shiite Askariya
Shrine in Samarra. Dozens of black funeral banners draped on walls

windowsills around the capital mark the toll of violence.

- millipede man, who thinks the Iraq war was an expensive mistake

that we should get out of Iraq immediately

who's we , you're not in Iraq stupid

I know,,, I see that word all the time and it drives me nuts..

it doesn't always bug me , just when its not used properly
like when someone says , we tend to do this or we tend to to that or we
think this way

Or we are fighting poverty. Or we are recycling. Or we whatever,,
In my opinion it is almost never apropriate,, People should use the
word us and then define for the listener who us is.. We is a tactic.
It is a manipulative word that is used to create the illusion that
there are alot of people behind the speaker. To create the idea that
everybody is onboard. Some times I think everything and everyone is
just one big failure to communicate.. I am so negative lately. I
hope this passes soon,, waving, jill

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% wrote:

"millipede man" <millipede_man@millipede.net> wrote in message
news:Xns97CD4BB883DD1millieNOTSORTANOTSOR@207.217.125.201...

[MM: How many years have passed since moron GW Bush declared "Mission
accomplished"?]


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/c/a/2006/05/24/MNGLAJ16071.DTL

'
Violence aside, Baghdad is broken
Water runs only an hour a day, power is on for 4 hours, and sewage

runs

in the streets
Anna Badkhen, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Baghdad -- "Leaving aside security," Kassim the carpet salesman asked
rhetorically, "when you come home, what do you need?" He ticked off

the

answers on the fingers on his right hand: "Electricity. Water. Food."

"Getting any of this in Baghdad is a problem," he said.

[...]

Three years after the U.S. invasion, during which most of the Iraqi
capital's infrastructure collapsed, rudimentary services here remain
sporadic at best.

Decades-old water treatment plants that were supposed to have been

fixed

during postwar reconstruction meet only 60 percent of Baghdad's needs,
said Lt. Col. Chris Hall, whose unit, attached to the 101st Airborne
Division, is helping Iraqis rebuild power and water facilities.

Garbage chokes the city of 4.5 million people. Trash collection is
erratic or nonexistent, depending on which part of the city you live

in.

Insurgents use heaps of garbage to hide roadside bombs. More than 300
garbage collectors have been killed in Baghdad in the past six months,
city officials say. Insurgents target them because they work for the
government.

[...]

Garbage clogs sewage pipes, causing raw sewage to overflow into the
streets and fill the air with the stench of decay. In the Shiite slums
of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad, residents live in dwellings made
of bits of corrugated metal, chunks of concrete and rusted oil
canisters. Snowy white egrets skim the surface of putrid,

greenish-black

pools of sewage in the streets.

While much of the violence in Baghdad has taken place in the western
part of the city, Sadr City is not immune. Five people were killed

there

Tuesday when a car bomb exploded at the entrance to a police station.

"It was a horrible scene," Hussein Abdul-Hady, a 20-year-old student,
told the Los Angeles Times. "Bodies without hands; people were running
in chaos, screaming."

Throughout the city, scores of gas stations have shut down after

suicide

bombers began targeting them. Outside stations still open, lines of

cars

stretch sometimes for more than a mile, waiting for gasoline that has
quadrupled in price since before the invasion.

Food, for those who can afford it, is plentiful, but shopping is a

risky

endeavor. Many shop owners have shut their stores, fearing they would

be

targeted by religious militias who stage brazen daytime kidnappings

and

killings for no apparent reason other than their victims' religious
roots. Others have joined the mass exodus of Baghdad residents who

have

moved out of the city to flee the endemic violence.

[...]

In the predominantly Shiite, largely poverty-stricken eastern Baghdad,
religious leaders like the firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr

feed

off the popular disenchantment with the collapsed infrastructure,

using

it to draw support for their militias, said Col. Tom Vail, commander

of

the 506th Regimental Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division, which
patrols this area.

[...]

U.S. and Iraqi officials say al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and militias loyal

to

other Shiite clerics have infiltrated the national police. Some of the
militias -- although no one has pointed specifically at al-Sadr's --

are

operating death squads, contributing to the sectarian violence that

has

swept the country since the Feb. 22 bombing of the Shiite Askariya
Shrine in Samarra. Dozens of black funeral banners draped on walls and
windowsills around the capital mark the toll of violence.

- millipede man, who thinks the Iraq war was an expensive mistake and
that we should get out of Iraq immediately

who's we , you're not in Iraq stupid

I know,,, I see that word all the time and it drives me nuts..

it doesn't always bug me , just when its not used properly
like when someone says , we tend to do this or we tend to to that or we
think this way

Or we are fighting poverty. Or we are recycling. Or we whatever,,
In my opinion it is almost never apropriate,, People should use the
word us and then define for the listener who us is.. We is a tactic.
It is a manipulative word that is used to create the illusion that
there are alot of people behind the speaker. To create the idea that
everybody is onboard.

"%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:wfSdncal9oULHOnZnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@giganews.com...

it doesn't always bug me , just when its not used properly
like when someone says , we tend to do this or we tend to to that or we
think this way

LMAO again. Let's see, where do I begin...

No caps; both commas missplaced; "its" instead of "it's";
missing puctuation mark after "properly"; no quotation marks
or commas after "says" and no period at the end. And you
managed this in less than three lines....and all from the same
person who complains about things not being "used properly."

I just knew this would be worth it!

----------
"Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We,
the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."

----Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2001


blow me , bugle boy

"%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:wfSdncal9oULHOnZnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@giganews.com...

it doesn't always bug me , just when its not used properly
like when someone says , we tend to do this or we tend to to that or we
think this way

LMAO again. Let's see, where do I begin...

No caps; both commas missplaced; "its" instead of "it's";
missing puctuation mark after "properly"; no quotation marks
or commas after "says" and no period at the end. And you
managed this in less than three lines....and all from the same
person who complains about things not being "used properly."

I just knew this would be worth it!

----------
"Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We,
the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."

----Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2001

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N/A wrote:

LOL!
You happy puppet. Thor keeps pulling the strings, and you dance.

I almost feel bad. It's like hiding the ball from Bruno.