Where are the stories about our sucesses over there?
Our successes outweigh our failures 100 to 1.
Ok. You're on. I'll name some failures and you name 100 successes to counterbalance each of them.
1. Baghdad averages about 2 hours a day of electricity. Water service is sporadic. Several dozen civilians die each day in bomb attacks and assasinations.
2. A country that used to be ruled by a brutal, secular dictator is now on the verge of becoming a brutal Shi'ite theocracy.
3. The only real safe area for Iraqi government officials is the tiny green zone enclave in Baghdad.
4. We went into this thing without enough troops to secure the peace and no credible plan to maintain security after combat operations. The result has been escalating, horrific sectarian violence.
5. Somehwere between 40,000 and 600,000 Iraqis have died. We'll be pushing 3,000 U.S. dead and 20,000 wounded pretty soon.
6. There haven't been any WMDs found to date.
7. We are spending $6300 a second. The war is approaching 2,000,000,000,000 dollars in total expenses (Rummy said it would be under 50 billion). This would be enough money to provide basic health insurance for all uninsured Americans for the next decade.
Of course we've done a few good things. We've set up schools and Iraq had fairly open elections. But those things will be for nothing if a civil war erupts.
This war is going to go down as one of the worst foreign policy debacles in American history and Bush will certainly be vying for top five billing on the failed Presidents list.
