Iraq's power supply sinks to record low

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BAGHDAD, Jan 12 (AFP) - Iraq's national electricity supply has fallen well below its level of before the 2003 invasion, a US army commander told reporters Wednesday.

Power plants now generate only 3,500-3,600 megawatts daily, far less than the 4,400 megawatts of electricity under Saddam Hussein's rule on the eve of the invasion, said Major General Thomas Bostwick, commander of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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It's even worse than that paragraph implies:

Towards the end of the article, it mentions that 9,000 megawatts were generated daily in 1990, before the US/UN economic sanctions were imposed. Really, that should be the benchmark for all these social and economic statistics, not before the invasion - which means under the blockade.

Since the blockade's been lifted now, the occupation has no good excuse for doing worse than the Ba'thist regime before the sanctions, that is in 1990.

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In my opinion Iraq is more fucked up now then ever was, i'm waiting for people calling Bush's way 'Bushism'. or a Bushist sounds kindia like bullshit, but it would be only true to say Bush is Bullshit.