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Wonder Boy, you imply that the riots in Afghanistan were caused by the Newsweek article. Ironic that General Myers said just the opposite.



Again...

?!?

Where in this topic did I even mention riots in Afghanistan, or the Newsweek article ?

From what I've read, the surge of suicide bombings in recent weeks is a temporary surge, unsustainable.
And that the Iraqi resistance (i.e., the foreign/al Qaida/pro-Saddam resistance, that wouldn't even exist without the organization, funding and leadership from outside Iraq) cannot possibly be sustained, and that with every step Iraq moves toward sovereign democracy, terrorist resistance weakens.
That's why the insurgents have stepped up their suicide bombings in the last few weeks, since the elected Iraqi government convened. This is the insurgents' last-ditch attempt to shake democratic forces in Iraq.






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The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says a report from Afghanistan suggests that rioting in Jalalabad on May 11 was not necessarily connected to press reports that the Quran might have been desecrated in the presence of Muslim prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Air Force General Richard Myers told reporters at the Pentagon May 12 that he has been told that the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, rioting was related more to the ongoing political reconciliation process in Afghanistan than anything else.

Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran Handling, General Says





General Myers doesn't say that blaming the reporters was false, only that there are other contributing factors.






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then you try to indict Galloway because he met with Sadaam:





I "indicted" Galloway because of his wrongheaded opposition to U.N. sanctions against Iraq (opposition by Galloway to punishing Saddam for murdering tens of thousands of his own Shi'ite and Kurd citizens, in punitive actions short of war, to stop the genocide)
Again, it is estimated that in Saddam's bloody 25-year reign in Iraq, he murdered roughly one MILLION of his own citizens in the cruelest and most terrifying ways possible

And I also "indicted" Galloway for openly praising Saddam's "courage, strength and indefatiguability", in slaughtering those thousands in his cold-blooded cling to power.

Galloway publicly saluted Saddam Hussein, an architect of bloody genocide, who is well known to have patterned himself in the image of Hitler and Stalin.

Yet Galloway praised Saddam, did not condemn the genocide, and arguably profited from the U.N. sanctions "Oil For Food"program, and from his goodwill toward Saddam.







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As for the Electricity.....

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But the pell-mell effort to spend that June may help explain many of the problems in the reconstruction of Iraq, and it continues to haunt the U.S. nearly a year later.

U.S. officials are unsure whether billions of dollars dispatched to Iraqi ministries for reconstruction projects ever reached their intended destinations. Schools and hospitals refurbished under hastily issued contracts have again fallen into disrepair. The oil and power industries are in worse shape than during the regime of Saddam Hussein.

"The Iraqis will be paying for the screw-ups of the CPA for a long time,"

Rules and Cash Flew Out the Window among others







Gee, what a surprise, Paul Wellr/Whomod.
Another L.A.Times link.

Which again, is a Whomod signature.

As are the fanatical and personal diatribes you direct at anyone who disagrees with you.

I would have far more respect for your views, even those I disagree with, if you could simply discuss the issue respectfully, and refrain from the personal rancor, that just self-incriminatingly makes you look like an idiot with no civility or objectivity whatsoever.






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From todays financial Times

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The privately-owned company started selling power to Iraq in 2003 to help relieve severe post-war power shortages. Ankara's special envoy on Iraq, Osman Koroturk, said in a television interview earlier this week that easing the power shortages could help improve the security situation in Turkey's neighbour.

Turkey to triple electricity exports to Iraq


and an older article from last year which is relevant since just before it was published,m the same denials were being told by the Bush Administration







These are clearly anti-Bush/liberal partisan websites eager to snatch on anything that looks like it might reflect badly on Bush or the Iraq war. I see no balance or objectivity attempted in these articles.

And I certainly trust a U.S. government website over any of these sites you posted.






And just for laughs...

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But of course you choose to reference the same Government sites that edits out Congressional testimony that it finds unpleasant.



Last time I checked, PBS News Hour was not considered a "right wing extremist news source" that edits the facts.



Quite the contrary, PBS News Hour is arguably the least sensational and most respected broadcast news source in the United States.
And it is anything but right-wing.

If anything, PBS is criticized for being too left-leaning in its programming, as evidenced by attempts by conservatives to leverage it to be more balanced, or lose its public funding.
And this is a debate that's been going on in Congress since the early Clinton years.






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Not surprising.
Both you and G-Man repeatedly try to paint the rosiest of scenarios in Iraq...




Or simply quote from mainstream sources?

Unlike your quoting the L.A. Times and a bunch of Bush-hating websites.





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... much like some lying recruiter you hear about, trying to lure people to their war.




Wow. Nothing hateful, slanderous or hysteria-driven about that characterization !



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Incredible that following this thread alone, both you and G-Man have been painting these sunny scenarions for YEARS already!

YEARS!

and yet the death count and mayhem marches ever onward.

Bastards.





More of your self-incriminating hysteria.

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