Iraqis' Rage at Boiling Point [View All]

BAGHDAD — More at ease with the gentle voice she uses to teach elementary school students, Khawla Ahmed struggled Saturday to find diplomatic language to express her outrage at what life has become in Iraq.

But as she rattled off the mounting horrors of thieves prowling in daylight, sabotage knocking out lights in schools and water in the kitchen, and now terrorist strikes killing scores of Iraqis, her anger escalated into a venomous tirade at the country's U.S.-led administration.

"America considers itself the superpower of the world, but here it is powerless to keep any semblance of order," she said. "The Americans fired our police and our army. Now there is no security and foreign terrorists are coming across our borders."

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As living conditions have been slow to improve due in part to persistent sabotage, Iraqis increasingly have begun to suspect that the U.S.-led invasion was aimed at stealing their natural wealth, not liberating them from oppression

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-fg-mad31aug31,1,4515342.story?coll=la-home-headlines

From the article it seems that more and more Iraqi's are starting to feel that life was better under Saddam, even though the average Iraqi hated him. That's quite an achievement for the U.S.