Food shortages hit Iraqis

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5423598

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is suffering a shortage of state-supplied wheat, sugar and rice because of logistics and security problems,
officials and traders say.

Most Iraqis, already in the grip of a fuel and electricity crisis, have depended on monthly rations since the Saddam Hussein era under a
system meant to lessen the crushing impact of the 1990-2003 sanctions that helped destroy the economy.

"We have been warning Iraqi officials for months that Iraq was heading for shortages. They insisted on middlemen and companies that
cannot deliver," a market insider said on Wednesday.

"They blame security. But there are 1,000 trucks that enter Iraq from Jordan every day alone and yet wheat shipments sit in the port of Aqaba
for eternity."

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[Spinzonner]

1. Is it possible for the Bush Administration to fuck things up any worse ?

I shudder at the possibility and what it will look like.

[pinniped]

2. How about air dropping some food packets?

What, Halliburton has no C-130 transports?

I recall the Afghanis got some air-dropped food at the start of the invasion but that is probably a distant memory.

[riverwalker]

4. yeah, they air dropped YELLOW packets

of food in Afhganistan.....the same color as the cluster bombs that were all over the place. Hungry kids blown to pieces.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Let's see...

Blow up their shelter. Check.
Disable energy supply. Check.
Disrupt the food supply. Check.

That just about takes care of man's basic needs. As for procreation, attach electrical wires to the genitalia. Check.

[burrowowl]

5. Don't forget the DU (depleted uranium)

to produce birth defects ....