[Marine_Uncle]

Perhaps the current surge has not directly attributed to the increased flow in this pipeline. But the pipeline would not even being operated at this point, if US forces had not been performing major military counter-insurgency operations in the north for the past three years. And lest we forget, it has been the US military engineering groups responsible for putting all the improvements for both their aging and long neglected oil refineries and electrical generation facilities.
Everything in Iraq that is important to sustained and better living conditions is the result of the American and Coalition forces.
But good for them. They have decided to stop being idiots and attempt to rebuild much of what Saddam neglected to take care of.

[elhombrelibre]

True, the COE has done tremendous things in Iraq, nearly all of it unsung of course. It’s been far more important for the MSM to give a gruesome body count than to report on what the GRD has been up to. Normally, Liberals will tell you that you must build schools and hospitals to improve society and win people over. In Iraq, the MSM and Democrats have proven that its ideology that drives many people, at least for them!