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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

Lynda submitted 

>The Facts in Iraq  The Nation (website) 24 November 2004  
>http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=2028<http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?pid=2028>
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> ** The Iraqi police has only 41 percent of the weapons, 25 percent of the
vehicles, and 31 percent of the body armor identified as necessary by US
forces.

Which is murderously shameful - consider *U.S.* 
forces are lacking quite a bit *still* - and it 
ain't gonna get no better, folks ...

> ** Of the $18.4 billion in reconstruction funds allocated last year by
Congress, the US has spent only $1.7 billion.

Well, no - the interest on that money is going
into a lot of deep pockets - and it may never
*be* spent in Iraq .... 'cause who is watching
the watchers ?

> ** Only 33 percent of Iraqis think they're better off now than before the
war, as a Gallup poll discovered.

Yes, indeed, and that 33 percent includes the
ones who *don't live* in Iraq because they
have homes and apartments all over the world -
they *own* those oil wells and the people who
*work* for them. Which just let to another 
thought about financing the last shenanigan-
filled election ...

> "They say the war is over," wrote the Iraqi journalist Abbas Ahmed Ibrahim,
in a dispatch from Falluja that captures his country's anxious despair. "But
there is no peace."

Which is the anxious despair of those who
*believed* American/Americans could 'fix'
anything. And are discovering there are 
'fixers' and there are 'fixers' - and right now 
Americans are getting 'fixed' (well, there is
another f-word that describes it better)
along with the Iraqis ....