From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:09:36 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>"Gene McAloon"  wrote: It has
been a very long time
>indeed. The invasion phase ended last May. We are now into February
>
>Your definition of a long time is decidedly different than mine or most
>peoples. For instance, the WTC came down in September of 2001, we're now
>into February 2004 and still there is nothing there but a hole, yet you
>expect an entire country to be back to normal (as if it ever was normal)
>when we can't even rebuild a single city block in 3 times that period?
>
>

The WTC debacle is an entirely different story. There were/are too many
competing interests, city, state, the Port Authority, competing architects
and incredibly even relatives of those killed in the former buildings. 
They all had
a say. Delay was inevitable.

Iraq has no such impediments. The US military does whatever it chooses. Even the
Iraqis involved are handpicked.  The delay in Iraq has nothing to do with
competing interests, but rather with dumb planning or rather lack of
planning, lack of foresight, refusal to take into consideration the many
postwar policy papers produced by the State Dept., ignored by the civilian
dimwits in the Defense Dept.  They even ignored the Army Chief of Staff's
recommendation of how
many troops would be required for occupation duty, Wolfowitz publicly
criticizing him and his figure.  The Army Chief of Staff was right and as
events
have proved, Wolfowitz was wrong.

There can be no comparison between rebuilding the WTC and the gross incompetence
of the Bush administration in Iraq and even the period leading up to Bush's war.

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