Baghdad residents: "Our city is crumbling."

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Talib Abu Younes put his lips to a glass of tap water recently and watched worms swimming in the bottom.

Electricity flickers on and off for two hours in Muthana Naim's south Baghdad home then shuts off for four in boiling July heat that shoots above 120 degrees.

Fadhel Hussein boils buckets of sewage-contaminated water from the Tigris River to wash the family's clothes.

The capital is crumbling around angry Baghdadis. Narrow concrete sewage pipes decay underground and water pipes leak out more than half the drinking water before it ever reaches a home, according to the U.S. military....

"We thank God that the air we breathe is not in the hands of the government. Otherwise they would have cut it off for a few hours each day," said Nadeem Haki, 39, an electric-goods shop owner in the upscale Karrada district in the east of the capital.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050725/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_rebuilding_wa_1&printer=1

that are happening in Iraq? :eyes: Could it be because the number of "good things" is so infinitesimal compared to the number of things we've fucked up? Nah!
Things are great in Iraq, these people should stop complaining and pull themselves up by the bootstraps just like every godlovin' Republican in this country. Nobody ever gave THEM anything, by god! Unless you want to count electricity, clean drinking water, good roads and an education, not to mention abundant food, medical treatment, you know, all of those things that GOD blessed us with! :eyes:
Sorry, I'm off ot a bad start today. I should never read the news until after breakfast. I wonder how many Iraqis went without breakfast today?

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Local residents hold a protest demanding that the Japanese Self-Defense Force leave the southern Iraqi town of Samawa July 26, 2005. The protestors said that in spite of the presence of the Japanese humanitarian mission in Samawa, they were still without basic necessities such as electricity and safe drinking water. About 550 Japanese soldiers are currently based in Samawa on a non-combat, humanitarian reconstruction mission. The sign in Arabic reads 'No No to Japan.' REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

You're free! Human waste flowing by your front door? Don't worry . . . be happy. The relatives are dying of heat stroke? Get a grip . . . everyone's gotta go sometime. Worms in the water? I've got one word for you: tequila. Your new democracy has been brought to you courtesy of George W. Bush and his stable of deep thinking neocons. They say you should be grateful, so a "thank you" note might be in order. What? No lights again? Tell King George.

Personally I would be happy to see the kids in school, eating drinking, and learning and not eating candy on the street.Iraq seems to be in better shape when Saddam was running it but for the news papers.

Or our freedom? I am so confused anymore!