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...since. Better for Blair to be a fool than a knave, but not by much; if his judgment was faulty on his casus belli, his leadership will be suspect. Despite the paltry results so far of the search for Iraq's banned weapons, he continues to insist that his prewar WMD claims will be vindicated. "You are just going to have to have a little bit of patience," he said in Warsaw last week. "I have absolutely no doubt at all that evidence will be found...
...Saddam and the Baath. There has been some progress in Baghdad too. Iraq's patchwork power grid last week managed to pump more than 1,000 MW of electricity into the city for the first time since the main fighting ended--though that was still less than half of prewar levels. But disorder still prevails in the capital. "There's no doubt in my mind that crime is increasing," says Major Loy Majeed, the assistant chief of the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad. "Now we get reports of five, six, seven killings in a night...
...larger problem that Wolfowitz refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several" to mean 300,000 or more--the current coalition troop level is approaching 200,000--but, more to the point, he said he had made the comment because "our enemies in the Arab world...
...larger problem that Wolfowitz refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several" to mean 300,000 or more - the current coalition troop level is approaching 200,000--but, more to the point, he said he had made the comment because "our enemies in the Arab world...
...fact that the electrical grid is supplying only 40 percent capacity; there are no streetlights, no telephone system, TV, radio or other reliable forms of communication; gasoline shortages require residents to line up for 10 hours in order to buy a third of a tank; the fact that the prewar jobs of millions of Iraqis have simply disappeared, leaving them without income and no reliable food distribution system to replace the official rationing system that existed before the war - looting and criminal violence has slowed the deliver of aid - and the situation of many ordinary Iraqis borders on desperate...