As usual, where there is trouble in a Muslim country you can usually find an imam at the center of it. Why don't we take these guys out? As in -- take them out to the desert and leave them there. So they want us gone, do they? They should be careful what they ask for. We could just up and leave, citing these "requests," and let them pick up all the mess themselves.
As for the complaints in Baghdad about their city being without running water and electricity for two whole weeks -- what a bunch of wimps. After Hurricane Andrew passed by my neighborhood my block was without electricity for three weeks, in the middle of August, when temps went up to the high nineties and even the low hundreds. (As for water, 1992 was a drought year -- Andrew was one of the driest hurricanes ever, with hardly any rain; it was mostly wind and storm surge. And we were occupied by the US Army too, and we also had plenty of looters.)
(Via Tim Blair.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at April 19, 2003 02:47 AMAfter the big ice storm we had up here in the Carolinas this winter, there were a lot of areas that were without power for 2 to 4 weeks. We had similar problems after hurricanes Hugo and Fran.
Subfreezing temperatures are no picnic either when you don't have power. Lots of frozen pipes stopped the running water, as well.
I can sympathize with the Iraqis, to a point. Maybe if they helped us a little more, things would quiet down enough to get the utilities repaired.
Posted by: Tobacco Road Fogey at April 19, 2003 at 04:01 AM