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You've heard about this Iraqi wedding that was bombed by American aircraft? 45 people killed. Lots of women and children.

The military is investigating. So far they're saying that there was no evidence of a wedding. Associated Press Television News has video to prove otherwise, but apparently they're not sharing it with the military. Damn liberal news media.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20040523/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_attack_5

I love where the general says, "bad people have celebrations too." In other words, I don't care what they were doiong, they were terrorists.

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According to the State Dept. We haven't built one power plant, road, hospital, school, bridge, sanitation facility or any number of infrastructures.

Everything they're talking about doing are all renovation projects-check out the State Dept. site. I think renovation is a euphemism for rebuilding structures we bombed the hell out of.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/30820.htm

Accordingn to the State Department, we have renovated lots of power plants, roads, hospitals, schools, bridges, sanitation facilities, and other infrastructures.

THere is NOTHING that says new facilitites haven't been built. In fact, that link indicates that 900 new schools have been built of an anticipated 4500 new facilities over four years. And, new teachers are being trained to fill those schools. This is part of the infrastructure.

No, nothing at that link explicitly says "we have added X new power plants" or "Y miles of new roads have been paved", but a common phrase is pertinent here -- absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The fact that power levels are better now than before the war infers that either the plants have been upgraded, or there are more of them. Either way, Iraq is getting better and better day by day.

http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/contracts/pdf/iirii_rfp031002attach11.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/part3.html