Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
It used to be that Bagdad had all the electrical power/clean water/sewer systems but that has changed. These services are being equally divided throughout Iraq. There is also the restoration of the wetlands in the south. A new medical training hospital in Najaf. There are many, many improvements that you don't see on the ol' gloom and doom tube. BTW, is not the "doom Tube" the way the majority of Americans get their news?

Newsweek has just hailed the emergence of a booming market economy in Iraq as "the mother of all surprises," noting that "Iraqis are more optimistic about the future than most Americans are." The reason, of course, is that Iraqis know what is going on in their country while Americans are fed a diet of exclusively negative reporting from Iraq.
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That may be all good and well, but the whole deal in Iraq rests on Bagdad where approx. 10 million Iraqis are in complete fear for their lives every day. The only safe area is the green zone and only connected Iraqis and US puppeteers live and work there. Do you and your Bush friends really believe 20-30 thousand more troops will straighten out this mess,

MY Bush friends....LOL. I don't care if it were a Dem or Rep in office, we need to get this done and I'm glad we did what we did in the first place. LOL.....one of my "Bush" friends is stopping in later; I'll ask her.

I and most other Americans really see this as a feeble attempt for Bush to save face, with no regard for our soldiers lives. This escalation will surely be met with increased violence. Bagdad is roughly the size of Los Angeles, If the majority of the population of LA were to uprise and go on a killing spree, do you think 30-50 thousand troops in the streets would Quell it, were talking millions of pissed off Iraqis. I'll tell you what. I'll venture to say this debacle will cost a thousand more American lives, wanna Bet!

I don't see the majority of Bagdad residents being involved. If that were the case we'd see where thousands were killed in a days time. You got the Sunni's resting right by Sadr City which was completely beat up by Saddam and Sons. MOST of the people want to get this over and done. People like Al-Sadr, Al-Quada, and the ex-Bathists arent the only residents.

I'm really not for sending anymore troops. Our mission is to secure the Gov., which we can do right now.......and to train THEIR troops to take over security, which is also being done.

BTW, while we're building hospitals in Iraq, they're shutting down hospitals over here due to the influx of illegal aliens, Maybe we should get our priorities in order! What about re-building our crumbling infrastructure, That trillion dollars could have done a lot of good right here in the good old USA!
LOL........Now thats another debate that I just kind of think that maybe we are on the same page. SCAREY isn't it!!:stoned: Cost of Illegals and what measures to take.

I'm all for rebuilding our infrustucture but once again WE would have to start, in quite a few cases, to clean out our insurgent groups. Gang membership is up over 1 million. Time to kick some Gang Bang ass with the National Guard.......after Iraq these folk will seem like cheap ass punks to these soldiers.

There are hospital system that are hurting and then there are the types like the Mayo system which is reaping the benifits/ along with it's crooked suppliers. I got some first hand knowledge on that shit!! Next time you go to an E.R. take a look at the little swivel chair behind the counter.......$450!! Hospital grade.......I'd sit that pretty little nurses ass in a vibrating lazy Boy for that cost!!

Iraq, like Iran is something that needed to be dealt with and in Irans case, will probably have to be dealt with........but thats another thread.

NOW, answer me this riddle.... YOU have just been elected; President medicinal, how would YOU deal with Iraq today?:stoned:

Have a good one!:jointsmile: