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"Harry Hope" |
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02 Aug 2007 02:47:40 PM |
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Water Taps Run Dry in Baghdad. When does the "surge" start working? |
From The Associated Press, 8/2/07:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-08-02-14-19-17
Water Taps Run Dry in Baghdad
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) --
Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had
been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone
and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer.
Residents and city officials said large sections in the west of the
capital had been virtually dry for six days because the already
strained electricity grid cannot provide sufficient power to run water
purification and pumping stations.
Baghdad routinely suffers from periodic water outages, but this one is
described by residents as one of the most extended and widespread in
recent memory.
The problem highlights the larger difficulties in a capital beset by
violence, crumbling infrastructure, rampant crime and too little
electricity to keep cool in the sweltering weather more than four
years after the U.S.-led invasion.
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Hey, Georgie, how's your ole "surge" comin' along?
Harry
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| User: "Tab182" |
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| Title: Re: Water Taps Run Dry in Baghdad. When does the "surge" start working? |
02 Aug 2007 06:08:05 PM |
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On Aug 2, 3:47 pm, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Associated Press, 8/2/07:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMP...
Water Taps Run Dry in Baghdad
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) --
Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had
been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone
and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer.
Residents and city officials said large sections in the west of the
capital had been virtually dry for six days because the already
strained electricity grid cannot provide sufficient power to run water
purification and pumping stations.
Baghdad routinely suffers from periodic water outages, but this one is
described by residents as one of the most extended and widespread in
recent memory.
The problem highlights the larger difficulties in a capital beset by
violence, crumbling infrastructure, rampant crime and too little
electricity to keep cool in the sweltering weather more than four
years after the U.S.-led invasion.
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Hey, Georgie, how's your ole "surge" comin' along?
Harry
Tellya Harry MAYBE if we had another 300,000 troops to send in to do a
Proper Job of it then I would have said give it a try.
But with only 165,000 BONE WEARY troops (some on the verge of their
6th deployment)doing the work 500,000 troops would have found a task
and a half to do all I can say is GET THEM THE HELL OUT!!!
BTW to bad we couldn't go to all of them thousands of Young
Republickcans who so strongly supported the war and get them to join
up (and do a tour of duty or two) but all of them seem to be suffering
from either Terminal Ball Shrinkage, Yellow Bellyism or the most
common condition Missing Backbones!!!
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