Iraqis Losing Hope That Politics Will Yield Real Change

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Iraqis Losing Hope That Politics Will Yield Real Change

Many Many Iraqis Losing Hope That Politics Will Yield Real Change (March 17, 2005)

Many Iraqis express "widespread dismay and even anger that the elections have not yet translated into a new government." Little has changed since the elections, and the most pressing issues -- water, sewage and electricity -- remain unresolved. Several residents of the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad complained they could not even watch the National Assembly's inaugural meeting on television because of power outages. (New York Times)

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/election/2005/0317change.htm

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The Velveteen Ocelot

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:28 PM
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2. But... but... I thought Democracy had been bestowed upon Iraq

Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 06:29 PM by ocelot

by the gracious and magnanimous King George! They got their democracy, they got their elections, so what's the problem now? Jeez, what's a little violence, collapsed infrastructure, and lack of water and electricity? Ungrateful wretches! King George saved them from Saddam Hussein, gave them some glorious American democracy and they're still complaining?

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:38 PM
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3. kick

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Fri Mar-18-05 06:56 PM
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4. Meet the new boss.

Multinational corporations have replaced Saddam.

I suppose it's difficult to feel much hope when your country is occupied by a foreign power.

Iraqis will not have hope until we get the hell out and let them decide their own fate.

We are only there to steal their oil.

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