After three years and $16 Billion, you can still only count on four hours of electricity per day in Baghdad. Compare this with 16 to 24 hours before the war, based on a report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq (not the so-called liberal media). It gets damn hot in Texas in the summer and if I could only get four hours of electricity, I would be clamoring for some accountability. To make matters worse, 20% of Iraqis have sewers and only 32% have drinking water. I might as well just light my tax dollars on fire.
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of Maslow's Hierarchy should be able to wrest lasting control of this place. These people don't want democracy, they want toilets and air conditioning. Why can't we improve those things first and then worry about self-actualizing concepts like freedom and democracy.
Run-of-the-mill business undergrads have heard that you can't manage what you can't measure. Here's a situation where we've got the measurement part down cold, but are failing to adjust in the management area. It's pretty clear that the civilian political leadership hasn't been up to the task, but these numbers suggest that the management on the ground has sucked as well. If this was a company, hopefully we'd have fired the CEO, but we damn sure would have changed strategy and tactics. This hasn't happened with the "stay the course" bunch.
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Here's the article I think Toby was referring to.
Other than the most die-hard administration sycophants, I think everyone knows that Bush cherry-picked his justification for war. It's sickening...and so much worse than blowjob.
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