Occupation Disaster or Wishful Thinking?
UTHOR: Just Some Poor Scmuck DATE: 5/19/2003 06:16:00 PM —– BODY: Plan to Secure Postwar Iraq Faulted (washingtonpost.com) A month before the war began in Iraq, senior Bush administration officials said their plan for winning the peace was built upon the swift provision of basic services that would “immediately” make the Iraqi people feel they were better off than they had been under the government of Saddam Hussein. Five weeks after the war ended, the administration is still struggling to accomplish that goal. It has failed to establish law and order on the streets and has achieved only mixed results in restoring electricity, water, sanitation and other essential needs. I’m having problems with this. The problems isn’t with the Bush administration though, it’s with the reporting. All through the preliminaries, the actual war and, to tell you the truth, the aftermath, we have bee hearing from the reporters of the “main-stream” press that it is, or is going to be a disaster. We had t
