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Thread #71148   Message #1216149
Posted By: Teribus
29-Jun-04 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Iraqi Sovereignty
Subject: RE: BS: Iraqi Sovereignty
With regard to pictures of death and destruction, torture and abuse, how loud were your protestations when all of those were happening, on a much larger scale, during Saddam Hussein's reign Akenaton?

Bobert,

Who were the four mortals who fell inside the "green zone"? Did they trip? Were they injured?

By the bye, Bobert, some facts and figures relating to the supply of electricity in Iraq today, compared to pre-war levels:

Pre-war -- 3,300 to 4,400 megawatts per day
October 2003 -- 4,518 megawatts per day
June 2004 -- 4,300 megawatts per day
Target -- 7,000 megawatts per day

Up to 3,400 megawatts per day of Generator POTENTIAL is offline each day due to scheduled maintenance, equipment breakdowns and sabotage (A note for Bobert - that does not mean you subtract 3,400 megawatts per day from the above. What we are talking about is Generator capacity is offline. The figures above are what is being produced)

In Southern Iraq, Electrical output now actually exceeds demand.

In Northern Iraq and in Southern Iraq power supplies are stable. They never were under Saddam Hussein's rule as he used electrical distribution as a political weapon against his own population, Baghdad always had electricity, the Sunni triangle always had electricity, but that was at the expense of others.