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As distinct from nation-building, US-style in Iraq, where five years after it was bombed to pieces everyone needs an AK47 to scrounge for food and there are barely any public utilities exisiting?
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You need to keep up with the news. Deaths are down so sharply that the blast walls in Baghdad are coming down. Since the surge violence has declined from 3,000 civilian casualties (deaths+wounded) to 300 a month.
Iraqis currently control 11 out of 18 provinces, election laws for the provinces have been passed.
As for public utilities, we are constantly working on them. Coverage has increased exponentially, but unfortunately the power available hasn't increased at the same rate.
The hardest hit are the journalists...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews