Re: Good news in Iraq

Yesterday Condoleeza Rice testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Comm. One of the senators was confused by her glowing reports of the great improvements in infrastructure, in that previous testimony from the head of reconstruction (or someone like that) had previously shown that of all the services ( sewage, water, gasoline, electricity, schools, etc.), only electricity was above prewar levels. Yet, Condi testified that potable water delivery was at a higher level. He pressed her on this until she finally acknowledged that the water "capacity" had increased, although the level of "delivery" to households had actually decreased. So, this met our goal of rebuilding infrastructure capacity, even though the actual delivery of actual water to actual households to be drunk by actual people had actually declined.

This is the state of the "good news" in Iraq.