Rebuilding Iraq
Dear Editor,
Every community that's sent a National Guard unit over to the Persian Gulf
knows that they've taken their heavy construction equipment with them.
Whether this has resulted in a significant loss of assistance during
national disasters here at home, is as yet unknown.
What also seems to be generally unknown is why all this equipment was
shipped over there in the first place.Now the explanation is that it is
needed to rebuild Iraq. But, under the initial scenario Iraq wasn't
supposed to be destroyed. So what was the real reason?
Since some of the units were initially put to work building roads in
Kuwait, their mission would seem to have been just that. But, how come
Kuwait, whose income from oil sales we fought a war to protect, can't build
its own roads?If they don't have the technical know-how, why couldn't
that have been contracted out all along? Doesn't make much sense, does it?
Well, what does make sense is that the original plan was for the Americans
to build fourteen permanent military bases in Iraq and that's what they
needed the heavy construction equipment for.
Now, since it seems that the Iraqi people are no more interested in having
military bases in their land than Saddam Hussein was, I sort of doubt that
they are going to want to have their houses rebuilt by the vandals who
destroyed them either.I mean, if somebody broke all the windows in your
house, tore out the plumbing and crashed in the ceiling, would you trust
them to fix it?