On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:42:31 -0400, DSK wrote:


thunder wrote:
Well, I agree with that. Thanks to GWB, we have broken Iraq. It is now
our duty to fix it.


Agreed, but how? Right now, there is darn little progress being made on
"rebuilding" Iraq... our military was ordered to blow up electric & water
plants, so that US contractors could make a fat profit rebuilding them...
but now the contractors are spending 99% of their money on security, and
99% of their time hunkered down waiting. We haven't even restored basic
services to all of Baghdad.

I'm afraid it's a crap shoot and answers are a little above my pay scale
but some suggestions if I were king.

Fire Rumsfeld. He seems to be the root cause of many of our mistakes.
Shinseki was right. We need more boots on the ground. It will entail a
draft, but so be it. We are asking too much from our too few soldiers,
some of whom are on their third tour.

Fire Halliburton. The job is clearly too big for them. Instead of hiring
American firms to accomplish the rebuild, we should be hiring Iraqi firms
with Iraqi employees. If the Iraqi companies are not qualified
(unlikely), perhaps something like FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps. We
have to put Iraqis to work. Gainfully employed Iraqis a less likely to be
future terrorists.

Senator Biden makes some good points:

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Dail...005062822.html