Anyone who still thinks (like Scott "White Is Black" McLellan) that the USA is ever going to "win" anything in Iraq has not been reading Informed Comment. There is much more bad news than just massive casualty figures day after day (which Western TV hardly bothers to mention any more).
The guerrilla movement has used terrorist tactics to bring Iraqi oil production to a standstill, according to Oil Ministry public relations manager Mohammed Ali Mustafa. He admitted, "There is no doubt that the US toppled the former regime for its own interests, ..."
Guerrilla threats and sabotage have denied electricity to Baghdad for all but about 6 hours a day in recent weeks. These reports on poor living conditions in Iraq most often neglect to mention that you can't run factories or workshops without electricity, so the shortages are holding back the economy and producing unemployment and economic hardship.
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