Want to see what Iraq Reconstruction looks like?

DoYouEverWonder

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Fri Dec-10-04 07:50 AM
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Want to see what Iraq Reconstruction looks like?

Downtown Fallujah - 2004

This is what we've spend billions of dollars and 1000's of human lives to accomplish. Isn't freedom and democracy grand?

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katinmn

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Fri Dec-10-04 07:53 AM
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1. I believe Falluja was once known as the "mosque city"

No more.
Shame.
Shame.
Shame.

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leftchick

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Fri Dec-10-04 08:24 AM
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2. "City of Mosques" actually...

Fallujah Residents Emerge, Find 'City of Mosques' in Ruins

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58510-2004Nov17?language=printer

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DoYouEverWonder

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Fri Dec-10-04 08:48 AM
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3. Here's Iraq on March 11, 2003 before the Invasion

http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1047144929377_2003/03/11/11wld_iraq_mosque,0.jpg

Hi-ho ... a lone worker strides towards the Arahman Mosque, under construction in Baghdad. Due to be completed in three years, the enormous concrete structure will be able to accommodate 45,000 worshippers during prayers. In the last year, six workers have lost their lives in accidents on the site. Photo: Jason South

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/10/1047144926252.html?from=storyrhs

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leftchick

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Fri Dec-10-04 09:50 AM
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4. That was most likely destroyed during "shockingly awful" bombing

bushco* has destroyed more life and treasure in this world than I could have ever imagined a human being capable of. It is beyond sad.
:(

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babylonsister

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Fri Dec-10-04 10:21 AM
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5. Remember the huge works of art

that the Taliban destroyed-I think they were buddhas-and how appalled the world was that the terrorists could destroy such beauty? Well, this mess totally surpasses that mess. I'm disgusted, embarrassed, saddened that ShrubCo could do this, to us and the Iraqis, all for oil.

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DoYouEverWonder

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Fri Dec-10-04 10:38 AM
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7. The most beautiful mosques in the world are in Iraq

To destroy these places is a crime against humanity and part of the genocide of the Iraqi people.

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otohara

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Fri Dec-10-04 10:21 AM
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6. Where's Halliburton?

Shouldn't they have a billboard or two up by now?

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