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MisterJLA said:
RACK Wonder Boy.

500 points



Thank you, sir. I salute your courage, strength and indefatiguability !




Another false argument I hear frequently is that the U.S. has yet to restore Iraq's power to its former pre-war level under Saddam.
To lay that fallacious argument permantly to rest, I offer the following link:

http://www.defense.gov/news/Sep2004/n09112004_2004091105.html


    Electricity production in the country averages about 5,000 megawatts, a total that services an estimated 15 million Iraqi homes and exceeds the pre-war level of 4,400 megawatts, officials said.

    Since regime change, much of the news in Baghdad has focused on the availability of less power in the Iraqi capital, a focus Stor said is misleading.
    [ Maj. Erik Stor, the operations officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restore Iraqi Electricity Directorate ]

    Despite the addition of power to the country's national grid, the demand for electricity in Iraq continues to grow, according to a fact sheet published by the Iraq Ministry of Electricity.

    "With more than half a million new jobs created, new industries and new factories, Iraq has experienced a rapid increase in electricity demand," the fact sheet reads. "The increase in demand is a good sign of a thriving economy emerging from three decades of isolation."

    Since beginning its work in the country nearly a year ago, the corps has added an additional 1,621 megawatts to the Iraqi national grid, enough to service 4.8 million Iraqi homes.



The power levels "that have yet to be restored" as liberals constantly bemoan, have actually been restored since October 2003.

Another link:


The comments following this article are hilarious, and perfectly capture my own thoughts on the liberal media's absolute refusal to report what is being accomplished in Iraq.

Again, as I've seen said often on the PBS News Hour and on various Sunday morning talk shows, the pace of reconstruction and economic recovery far exceeds the pace of reconstruction in post-WW II Europe.

But don't expect to see it as a lead story of the New York Times or any of the broadcast news networks.


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    Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.

    EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.