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Article: Bremer seeks funds for Iraqi power grid; Senators question Bush plan.(BUSINESS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2003
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Byline: Jeffrey Sparshott, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Electrical service in Iraq is still a month away from prewar levels, and Iraqis face an indefinite period with rolling blackouts unless new funding is approved for reconstruction, the Bush administration's top official in Iraq said yesterday.
"Think of what we would be asking Iraqis were we to suggest they fashion a new economy, a new democracy, while literally in the dark eight hours a day," L. Paul Bremer, administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, said yesterday in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Bush administration officials this week have been working to ...