that is so fake. There is no such thing as flying smurfs. Therefore the idea that all those smurfs would have landed on the box and overloaded the cables on one side just doesn't make sense. Also, Godzilla isn't real... so to have Godzilla appear at the last minute to smash the freighter well... I think it's fake.
Webstur B definin' "konskrukshun" as wat dey be doin' in Irak. Da US milatarry B makin' it possable fo dem sandy folks B havin' modurn thangs like 'lectricity, watur and dump thrones. It B wurkin' 2. Thro billyuns o' dollahs at anythang an it git betta. Good ol' Bush; Fatha of da Iraki nashun!
Iraq had electricity before we invaded. In fact, even though they couldn't get parts for the plants, they managed to keep them running more hours a day than they do now. Not really a surprise, having skilled employees showing up to work alive is more important than having spare parts. (Not that Bush thinks so, even though he was responsible for both problems in the first place.)
No big deal, getting sleep in the winter sometimes, but maybe enough drugs keeps you out of the room long enough for me to sneak by the open door and then lay down on the floor and sleep because I am tired and do not have a hat anymore.
headshot: I don't see you arguing the actual point with actual sources, in fact, making statements without backing them up is the very definition of "spinning." As such, I trust the media a lot more than I trust some random guy on a random website.
Here is an interview with the Iraq Electricity Minister: http://www.nysun.com/foreign/electricity-minister-baghdad-power-at-pre-war/67774/ He says he was in the main Ministry of Electricity building when American-led soldiers advanced on Baghdad, and one of the last officials to leave his post. And yet Karim Hasan refused in a one-hour interview to express regret for the fall of the Baathist state that he once served. ... Mr. Hasan said Baghdad residents on average receive 12 hours of power a day from the battered Iraqi electricity grid. But he expected that by 2011, Baghdadis would have 18 hours a day, the average under Saddam Hussein before his regime toppled.
In other words, this guy is happy that Saddam is gone, but says that the power grid is in worse shape than it was under Saddam. If the media is spinning that so that things appeared worse than they were, wouldn't they neglect to mention that he was happy that Saddam was gone?
And here is a story about the electrical situation in Iraq, (or lack of it,) directly from a US solider there:
http://davidswardiary.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html It is official. The US Army brigade in Ramadi has now spent $1.94 million on solar-powered street lights. Or, more accurately, the Army has spent $1.94 million attempting to light up Ramadi with solar-powered street lights.
The saga of the solar-powered street lights began late this Spring when the provincial government featured a modest project for new street lights in the downtown area of the war damaged city. The solar-powered lights were to be an interim solution until the Ramadi director general (DG) of municipalities was able to repair or replace the preexisting street lights in the city as electricity service improved to the region.The military pounced on this brilliant plan, aiming to exploit it throughout the city. Starting as murmur, soon echoes of "Solar lights, solar lights, solar lights?? Solar Lights!" reverberated through the shabby concrete halls and into makeshift wooden cubicles, wafted over the radios, and permeated emails, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint slides. Somehow the very future of the city rested in the flourishing of solar-powered street lights. Maybe Iraqis too can learn to have the moral self-satisfaction of having Green public works initiatives. Within a month, Iraqi municipal workers, contractors, and engineers were bustling around the city developing pricey scopes of work and contracts for the ravenous military demand for more solar-powered street lights.
The first completed run of solar-powered street lights amounted to nothing more than a glowstick atop a shoddy fifteen foot pole. Another strip of sixty had only ten functional lights. The Iraqi DGs (director generals--municipal officials) wonder about our zealous adoption of a temporary solution, when already the electricity service is improving to the point when the existing infrastructure should be repaired. But we are paying out--solar lights are lucrative. It's a wonder the municipal employees don't quit working for the city to come build solar lights for the US Army. It was a point of personal pride in our unit that we had successfully stymied any installation of solar-powered street lights in our area of operations during our tenure.
UPDATE: I thought I had escaped the solar-powered street lights once and for all after leaving Ramadi. Not so. Camp Virginia, Kuwait has scores of gorgeous solar-powered streetlights (about eight feet apart, too). Being so closely spaced, they make superb road markers; illumination, however, comes from the noisy, gas-powered generator light systems placed along each row of solar-powered street lights.
(And the post at the bottom of the page is good too.)
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