Friday, November 30, 2007

Dead? Alive? Opinions differ.

Those damned ungrateful Iraqis... we kill a million of 'em for their own good, bomb the shit out of their country for Freedom's sake, and eradicate every mutha-luvin' speck of civil infrastructure just so they can bask in the 11.9 hours a day of the light of democracy, and for what? So they can piss and moan about rotting garbage (not to mention rotting corpses)? Well, I never...

Iraqis' Quality of Life Marked By Slow Gains, Many Setbacks - washingtonpost.com
BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 -- This war-battered city, according to U.S. statistics, now receives an average of 11.9 hours of electricity a day, far more than earlier this year. But don't tell that to Ghaida al-Banna.

For three straight days this week, the 50-year-old housewife's home in the once ritzy Mansour neighborhood received no power at all. Barely any water came out when she turned on the faucet. One thing Banna's area does have in abundance is uncollected garbage, piled into giant, malodorous heaps dotting the street.

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