He lives in those blogs, where if one writes it's rosy, it's rosy. Where if a conservative says it's true, it's true forever, even if the conservative later says it's not. (Rove and "Mission Accomplished".)

Tom Brosz - "Most of this infrastructure was a pile of crap when we moved in. Talk to some of the outfits that had to rebuild it. All the hospitals are open now. Power is back on. Does anyone notice?"

The infrastructure was a pile of crap largely because of US sanctions and US bombing 60% of the country. Be that as it may, regarding hospitals. (Seem to be a low priority. Halliburton and Bechtel don't have much to do with hospitals, do they?)

"March 3, 2004, Knight-Ridder - Yet there are those who wonder why, for example, a $26.3 million renovation of Iraq's Umm Qasr naval base near Basra, which is under way, took precedence over fixing the sewage system at the country's biggest children's hospital, al Iskan, where toilets sometimes overflow into the leukemia ward.

"Haveman said renovations began Monday at the hospital, under a $9 million grant from Spain."

But they do have to do with electricity.

"But the U.S.-led coalition clearly isn't tackling Iraq's health-care system the way, for example, it's fixing the electrical grid. Hundreds of Western engineers and contractors are working furiously to improve electricity before the summer, and by year's end the coalition will have spent $7 billion on electricity, officials said last week. By contrast, Haveman said he began with a staff of 37 that's dwindled to 15."

However, some blog said all of Iraq's hospitals are open.

"What is clear is that 10 months after the U.S.-led coalition promised to make things better, Iraq's shattered medical system -- from Baghdad to Basra, from Kirkuk to Karbala -- remains a mess.

"Basics such as painkillers or latex gloves are often unavailable. Doctors are routinely threatened or attacked. Facilities are overrun with administrative staff members who chat over tea while bathrooms clog with filth, resulting in the spread of lethal infections.

"One in 10 babies born don't make it, experts said. That rate is about the same as before the war."

Nice places. But, maybe, open.

Back to power.
Power: Prewar: 3,300-4,400 megawatts per day
Oct. 2003: 4,518 megawatts per day
Current: 4,300 megawatts per day (1,500 in Baghdad)
Target: 7,000 megawatts per day

Back up to about what it was before we blew it to smithereens. And look who rears their theiving head.

"Scheduled and unscheduled outages still make the power supply erratic. But the CPA and Bechtel Corp., a U.S.-based company that has been awarded major Iraqi reconstruction contracts, appear to have had some success in boosting the power supply."

$7 billion of their own money spent on this, and you have to wonder how much has stuck to Bechtel. And been tithed to GWB's campaign.

But Tom's blogs, that airy land where all is black or white, where saying something is black MAKES it so, and where everything conservative is WHITE, can't see this. All the electricity has to be on. All the hospitals are running fine. ALL because of the US.

It's his world. As strange as UFOs, and the Sedona face. Where reality meets the door, and is laughed away.

Arf