This is an interesting piece of cheery propaganda. Under the photo, the caption suggests that the bridge is goig to be widened, but then we discover that they are just thinking aobut widening only the pedestrian parts of the bridge that the United States destroyed when we nearly flattened the entire city and dropped the napal-like substance called white phospherous on the people who stayed to protect their homes and businesses or were too poor to be able to be refugees in the desert so wee could blow up their city. We are only planning to help rebuild the city, and this makes a good Story since we have fewplans to do much rebuilding of what we destroyed, for as we were told, "We are not in Iraq to engage in nation-building — our mission is to help Iraqis so that they can build their own nation." — Donald H. Rumsfeld, Washington Post, September 25 2003. In one obscene paragraph the author says that one of the most macabre image of the war came from Fallouja in 2004 of Iraqi man dancing as the burned remains of American "private security" workers hung from the bridge. I would say that much more macabre images would be the remains of Iraqis taken in the fall of 2004 from Fallouja, who were burned to crispy critters by American white phospherous which were posted by Dahr Jamail http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/album28?page=1 (there are 8 pages of them) The article does admit that there are still signs of our attackon the city and 3 1/2 years later the people still hve high unemployment, no clean water, no reliable electricity and not enough police, yet it is "alive again" and even "vibrant". The checkpoints are mentioned that people have to go through, but nothing about how the people were humiliated and forced to have iris scans in order to just get backinto their city. The worst is the cheerful ending. There is high unemployment and the city is still a shambles, and the hospital we attacked before attacking anything else in the November attack on the city is being replaced with some US money, but people are trying to live so that proves that the marines did not die in vain!