World Sympathy And Wisecracks for U.S. Blackout

World Sympathy And Wisecracks for U.S. Blackout
1 hour, 58 minutes ago

By Jeremy Laurence

LONDON (Reuters) - Some people voiced admiration, others worried, and some could not help but poke fun at the world's self-confessed "superpower with a Third World grid."



"Now we understand why they (Americans) have been unable to get the electricity running in Baghdad," said 47-year-old engineer Ghassan Tombin in the Gulf Arab country of Dubai.


From Nairobi to Moscow and beyond, the world was aghast that New York and a swathe of other cities across the United States and Canada could be shut down by a blackout.

In Iraq (news - web sites), where the U.S. administration has been struggling to restore power since ousting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in early April, residents in the capital worried how high-tech Americans would ever restore electricity with such huge power problems at home.


"They have the best equipment and technology and a power shortage can make such a big fuss in the United States. Now I am sure it will take them years to fix the electricity in Iraq," said Ali Saghbal, a worker at a Baghdad power station.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030815/wl_canada_nm/canada_power_world_col_1

RECALL GOVERNOR GEORGE PATAKI !!!!!! COME ON NY, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? ANOTHER DISASTER? HE's INCOMPETENT!

will anybody be pissed at gw*?

the irony is delicious.

"Now we understand why they (Americans) have been unable to get the electricity running in Baghdad," said 47-year-old engineer Ghassan Tombin in the Gulf Arab country of Dubai.

I suppose those wisecracking will be considered enemies of "the homeland" as well. Remember the rational for the cause of those alleged arabs that attacked America: some people were say they were just jealous. Look at how fucking ridiculous we look to those cynics in the world. And rightfully so, especially since our Admin seems to believe we have a definitive message to bring to those parts of the world where resources need exploiting. That being liberty and justice for all. Good ole American ideology called democracy.

we got us the biggest military in the world. Who needs one of them there eeelectrical grids, anyway ?? We can just kick your butt with out any eeelectricity. So...just quit the messing with us.

Signed BillyBobBigDudeJunior

:evilgrin:

the mindset of the soviet leaders in the 70s and 80s, and look
where that got them.
The bushies look determined to do the same to the US...