[eDebate] iraq in a very sad state of affairs

[Korry Harvey]

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while some contend otherwise, it's not just my over-actice imagination 
that's creating horrible conditions for much of the iraqi public. as i 
eluded to in an earlier post, conditions have been so bad that some iraqis 
have lamented the removal from power of saddam hussein and long for his 
return...

Excerpts from a July 26 Reuters report --

?Iraqis crowded round newspaper stalls in Baghdad for a first look at 
gruesome pictures of Odai and Qusai Hussein under banner headlines 
proclaiming their death.
      But hardly anyone bought a paper, a testament to the poverty of most 
Iraqis after years of war, dictatorship and sanctions.
      ?We?ve got to thank the Americans for killing Odai and Qusai, but 
where is the electricity and water they promised us?? taxi driver Abdel 
Latif Fazzaa asked.
      ?Getting Saddam and his sons is good for them, but it?s done little to 
better our lives.?

?talk soon turned to the power, water and security lapses that frustrate 
Iraqis living under a U.S.-led administration.

?newspaper seller Zeidan Hatem said he only caught a few minutes of the 
footage of Odai and Qusai?s reconstructed faces on an Arabic satellite 
channel in a nearby cafe before the electricity cut. Satellite television, 
banned under Saddam, remains a luxury to most Iraqis dogged by unemployment 
and meager wages.
      ?It?s them for sure, but it would have been nice if we could have been 
able to see them for a bit longer,? he said. ?We?ve not had power in my 
house for days now and the food in the fridge has already gone bad.?  [I?m 
not sure even fancy new ?foreign? refrigerators could do anything about 
that]
      Iraq?s infrastructure, which was already failing under 12 years of 
U.N. sanctions and neglect, was damaged during the U.S.-led war and the 
rampant looting that followed.
      Gunbattles still ring out in the capital at night and rare is the 
Iraqi who does not have a horror story to tell about life after Saddam. Some 
say the Americans are doing such a shoddy job that they long for their 
deposed leader to return.
      Two men shoveling sand at a building site said they had only heard 
about Odai and Qusai?s death in a U.S. raid on Tuesday from their friends, 
but did not have the time or the resources to read newspapers of watch the 
news.
      ?Some people say the bodies look like Odai and Qusai and others say 
they don?t,? one sweat-drenched laborer said. ?If they really are dead, God 
will deal with them, but who will deal with us??

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