That wasn't my post, it was a quote, in italics, taken from the article posted. But, it is true. But let's take your next statements one by one:
I just read on another thread that 1/3 of electrical potential was up and running,
Please link it or give me more of it's context. Could that just have been from someone posting or an article? And define "potential". Are they saying Iraq has the potential capacity to increase another 200%? Sure, it's a third world country, they all do. Does it mean they have the ability to do so or ever did? Again, I'd like to see that in more context because that's not what I've seen reported.
and then I just saw on Fox News that a small percentage of people in Baghdad have electricity for four hours a day,
I saw the same report but heard something totally different. I think you need to hear it again and pay more attention. The Fox report did NOT say "a small percentage in Baghdad" and yes, some only get 4 hours a day. That's more than they had before the war since Saddam, especially in Baghdad, used the electrical grid to reward and punish people to support him. And the 4 hours a day (most electricity right now is being used to keep businesses, hosptials and schools running...it's called priorities, check into it) is what the grid is producing.
and that's only the people who have generators or jerry rig some wires together
Again, you don't hear well. Let me give you the exact quote from Molly Henneberg about the "slow but steady progress" and that "In some cases, Iraqis have to be creative by buying a generator or by running electrical wire into their homes". The report did NOT say it was only the people who had generators or jerry rigged that have power as you contend.
They further said that all people in Iraq won't have electricity for years.
Again, selective hearing. Here's the EXACT quote from Mike Robinson, a Bechtel Engineer, "I would expect that it'll be a couple of years before they ever reach the level where everybody has all the power they want". That's a far cry from your perception that it meant "ALL people in Iraq won't have electricity for years". First, that's his estimate for FULL POWER for EVERYONE 24/7 like we have in the U.S. They didn't have that capability before the war or before 1991 because, as the report also said (again) that the infrastructure was totally neglected for years by Saddam.
And Fox News showed people washing their clothes in something that looked like a flood channel. I guess electricity in Iraq is one of the great mysteries of life these days.
They showed people getting running water for the first time, not the cleanest, but running water into their homes. And the video of the lady washing clothes was outside her home. The people you saw in the "flood channel" as you call it were looking at the hole in the water line, not washing clothes. While you get your hearing checked you might want to visit the optomitrist.
The water engineer said the "SABOTAGE was slowing them down along with the TOTAL DISREPAIR of the sewage treatment system and in 6-8 months they'd have it up and running for 1-2 million in Baghdad with increasing capabilities over time". Again, another system left to rot under Saddam and wasn't working anyway.
You really ought to pay more attention to what you are watching.
I've seen that myself in Mexico. Right behind the developed area with painted atractive buildings and carefully screened by landscaping.
They actually were washing children that time.
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