Iraq Insurgents Starve Capital of Electricity and this is what will happen

[rodeodance]

soon to our troops---cut off supply lines.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/world/middleeast/19electricity.html?ei=5090&en=89306aa81e82b756&ex=1324184400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

December 19, 2006
Iraq Insurgents Starve Capital of Electricity
By JAMES GLANZ

BAGHDAD, Dec. 18 — Over the past six months, Baghdad has been all but isolated electrically, Iraqi officials say, as insurgents have effectively won their battle to bring down critical high-voltage lines and cut off the capital from the major power plants to the north, south and west.

The battle has been waged in the remotest parts of the open desert, where the great towers that support thousands of miles of exposed lines are frequently felled with explosive charges in increasingly determined and sophisticated attacks, generally at night. Crews that arrive to repair the damage are often attacked and sometimes killed, ensuring that the government falls further and further behind as it attempts to repair the lines.

And in a measure of the deep disunity and dysfunction of this nation, when the repair crews and security forces are slow to respond, skilled looters often arrive with heavy trucks that pull down more of the towers to steal as much of the valuable aluminum conducting material in the lines as possible. The aluminum is melted into ingots and sold.

What amounts to an electrical siege of Baghdad is reflected in constant power failures and disastrously poor service in the capital, with severe consequences for security, governance, health care and the mood of an already weary and angry populace.

“Now Baghdad is almost isolated,” Karim Wahid, the Iraqi electricity minister, said in an interview last week. “We almost don’t have any power coming from outside.”
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[TomInTib]

1. I read a very disturbing report on the fragility of our supply lines

Our guys are hanging on by a thread because of the lack of security along hundreds of miles of highway.

But OOOOOHH!!! NOOOOO!!!!

I couldn't put it on not-so-Democratic Underground because it came from rense.com

You might want to check it out

[KansDem]

2. More American bungling...

As Baghdad relies increasingly on aging local plants to satisfy the bulk of its demand, Iraqi officials say that poor decisions in the American-financed reconstruction program have made those plants much less effective than they could be.

For example, the Qudis plant, just north of Baghdad, was outfitted with turbine generators modeled on 747 airplane engines that work efficiently only when using fuel of higher quality than the Iraqis can provide with any regularity, a fact that has led to damaging breakdowns.

[BeFree]

3. Chaos

Now why didn't the enemies of S.H. blow out these power lines before?

Only since the US invasion have these problems come about.

I'd have to say the idiot son's plans have been a miserable failure already. And we haven't even cut and run yet!