After 5 years of war, Iraqis desperate for water

cal04

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Sat Aug-23-08 07:40 PM
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After 5 years of war, Iraqis desperate for water

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LM554818.htm

At a communal water station in a Baghdad slum, a young boy's skinny arms fly up and down as he uses a bicycle pump to coax water from the dry ground.

His efforts produce a languid stream that will tide over his family -- and the families of the children waiting near him to fill their cooking pots -- until the next day.

This is a daily ritual for millions of Iraqis who lack access to sufficient clean water and proper sewage five years after the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

Water and sewage are perennial challenges in this arid country, where the overhaul of decrepit public works has been hindered by years of war and neglect.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Sat Aug-23-08 08:15 PM
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1. The neocons do love to destroy things, don't they? It's all in their diabolical plan

to ruin things and then contract out the rebuilding to their inept, overcharging buddies. x(

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MasonJar

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Sun Aug-24-08 08:40 PM
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2. That makes me sick. We are so evil. I hate what we have done to those

lovely people, especially the women. We put in a theocracy similar to Iran.

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