Condi:"We have increased the capacity for clean water for several million"

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16378211.htm

Rice grilled over Iraq rebuilding pace, costs

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We have the inspector general saying things are getting worse even though we have provided a lot of money," said Sen. Kent Conrad. "Who are we to believe?" the North Dakota Democrat asked Rice in a Senate Budget Committee hearing.

"I can tell you, patience is wearing thin," he said.

Rice, who had told the committee more Iraqis had access to sewerage and water services than before, argued that what the United States had improved was "capacity" and the United States had made a difference.

"I think this may be an issue of whether we are talking about delivery or capacity. We have increased the capacity for clean water for several million Iraqis," she said.

What mattered to Iraqis, Conrad said, was not the potential to get water and electricity but to actually get it.

[MadMaddie]

1. That's nice...so Iraqis have sewage and drinking water....

Meanwhile our gulfcoast residents don't have either nor a home.....:grr:

[neweurope]

2. I certainly wonder how the Iraqis have survived for some thousands

of years withouth the benevolence of the USA.


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Richard Steele]

3. Several million who already HAD water before we BOMBED them!

They also had electricity, free schools, decent health care;
and WOMEN had the right to walk outside when they wanted to....

I could go on, but it's quicker to just say:
"Fuck You, and fuck your lies, Condi."

[Kikosexy2]

4. Has Condi...

been doing crack with Whitney?? Or is there something in the water?