Iraqis despair at their daily lives

[True_Blue]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Price spikes have turned onions into a luxury. There is barely any electricity, and the Iraqi telephone networks are so bad that a call-in show with the prime minister had to be cancelled.

"There we were, happy to have Iyad Allawi on air after months of working on an interview," Radio Dijla chief executive Ahmad al-Rikaby told Reuters.

"We called it off because both landlines and cell-phones simply did not work."

An aura of resignation has settled over Iraqis as services deteriorate despite promises of improvement. Not even U.S.-backed government officials expect an upturn any time soon.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. I feel for those people. Bushoilgreedarrogance has resulted in a very

miserable situation....

The Pain Level has hit new levels...there and here too.

[saltpoint]

2. Well, Jesus Christ. Here our lovely president --

-- George W. Bush, goes and delivers freedom and democracy to the Iraqis and all these people do is bitch.

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There was mention in the news that Prince Harry should be sent for a visit to Auschwitz as pennance for his wearing a Nazi get-up to a party.

Maybe we need to let his Dad handle that one and over here, force Dubya to live among the human beings his goddam airplanes have bombed for months and months now.

Let him taste a little bit of his own foreign policy directive first-hand among the victims of his unethical war.

[NYC]

3. He deserves that.

But I wonder if he would learn anything? Somehow, I doubt it.

[saltpoint]

5. Hi, NYC -- and there you are again with --

-- another good point. I learn a lot reading your posts.

Well, yes. Dubya might not get it if we sent him to Mosul or Fallujah. Plus, he's awful busy right now with that glittering Inaugural hoe-down.

[NYC]

6. Help find an answer to my question, please.

WHY? Why are people not allowed to look directly at Bush? (Speaking of the multimillion dollar extravangza.)

[saltpoint]

8. I saw that, but for the life of me, I don't know what's going on.

It IS creepy, sort of Hitchcock-like creepy.

God, I wish John and John had won instead of Dubya and Dick.

[Robbien]

9. I heard it was a security measure

A person cannot shoot something at which they are not looking. But what do I know.

[Robbien]

4. The upper and middle classes are leaving

The poor and the rich from corruption will be the only ones remaining.

Sounds eerily familiar.

[merwin]

7. 'Fight them there so we don't have to fight them here'

is such as worthless statement. That is classifying them as lesser citizens of the world, and makes it somehow OK to kill them.

[sorechasm]

10. Iraqi Freedom's gettin' Fried

Why did we spend $200 billion and kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians? Installing dictators in South America to get our oil was a whole lot cheaper.

Oh, that's right, to allow our NEO-CONS a taste of world dominion. (A bitter taste to everyone else).

Also:

"The White House sought Wednesday to lower expectations for Iraq's elections, suggesting that there could be little or no voting in the most unstable provinces..." Washington Post last week.