When you mess something up, Fix It!

By any measure, we have made a mess in Iraq. In addition to 20-40 Iraqi getting killed every day by insurgents (plus American soldiers), we have apprently diverted funds (funds that I donated as a taxpayer) from rebuilding infrastructure.

The national electrical grid has an average daily output of 4,000 megawatts, about 400 megawatts less than its prewar level.

Iraqis nationwide receive on average less than 12 hours of power a day. For residents of Baghdad, it was six hours a day last month, according to a U.S. count, though many residents say that figure is high.

The Americans, said Zaid Saleem, 26, who works at a market in Baghdad, "are the best in destroying things but they are the worst in rebuilding."

You know, even the Romans were known for building things in their empire. We are just known for dropping atomic bombs and messing things up in general.

History will not be kind to us.