Half of Baghdad without water

[sabra]

Source: Azzaman

Power failures and maintenance have disrupted running water supplies to almost half of the capital, Baghdad, home to nearly 6 million people.

A Baghdad Municipality source said the project supplying drinking water to Rasafa, the eastern half of Baghdad, was temporarily idle.

The source, refusing to be named, said running water supplies may not resume for a few days.
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Water resumed intermittently and in inadequate quantities through household taps for half a day after a three-stoppage on Thursday. Then the taps dried once again.




Read more: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2008-02-15/kurd.htm

[Birthmark]

1. The Bush Administration...

...prefers to think of the Baghdad as half-full.

Christ, we've been there five years and can't even get the Iraqis indoor plumbing. They hate us for our freedoms...yeah, right.

[Laelth]

16. If they didn't hate us for our freedoms before ...

they do now. I'd take an oppressive regime and running water over illusory freedom and no water any day.

Bush is a ...



-Laelth

[Xenotime]

20. HA! Exactly. They hate becuase we turned their fucking country upside down.

[DaveJ]

2. Decisions... Decisions...

We could spend $50 million to help build modern aqueducts, or spend $5 trillion to make sure they stay poor. What to do... What to do....

[geiger]

10. ditto in this country; we're not helping the poor; the results of this war are making people poor

And it's not all Pres. Bush's fault. What about Congressional negligence to see the foreclosure crisis coming. They wrote those laws and the new bankruptcy rules which totally favor and protect BANKS and other big investing entities.

[Olney Blue]

3. We showed them, didn't we Chimp?

who's da war president

[Betty]

4. making friends everywhere we go

that's how to spread democracy!!!!

[geiger]

13. god speed democracy

if Bush spread that as well as lies, the situation would be opposite

[SpikeTss]

5. That means the surge is working! n/t

[geiger]

11. too bad what they need is a surge of water.

[lligrd]

6. But We Gave Them Freedom

and Democracy. Why are they complaining? Who needs water when you have Democracy?

[geiger]

9. freedom to live without water.....

[Orsino]

19. And Freedom is going to be thirsty after all that marching. n/t

[dysfunctional press]

7. half of baghdad WITH water...

didn't you get the memo?

[geiger]

8. all i can say is I HATE THIS WAR.

do we have to start adopting Iraqui families now, to make sure they are taken care of?

[flashl]

12. Why did no antiwar protesters carry signs saying, "No War for Water"?

Water Woes
In Iraq, Water and Oil Do Mix|By LEAH C. WELLS|May 16, 2003

Conspicuously missing from the ubiquitous Iraq war critique was the subtle agenda of water rights in the parched Middle East region. Of all the reasons for invading Iraq, securing water rights was never mentioned because it implicates too many countries with volatile connections to Iraq, like Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Israel. Protest signs read, "No Blood For Oil," as American corporations salivated in line for the opportunity to win contracts to rebuild the ravaged infrastructure. Why did no antiwar protesters carry signs saying, "No War for Water"? They should have.
Counterpunch

[Vinca]

14. Hey, they're lucky they've got water in New Orleans. nt

[Solly Mack]

15. Hush now...you're giving success a bad name

[Hepburn]

17. Hey, look at the bright side, OK?

All those purple fingers just get preserved a bit longer.

:sarcasm:

[bluesmail]

18. those we can't kill

will suffer further while alive without 1. water 2. electricity 3. Sanitation 4. we don't got no stinkin docters anymore

[classysassy]

21. Black water

or clean water?Before the invasion there was plenty of clean water,now just black water.

[LynnTheDem]

22. As a matter of FACT, yes life was BETTER under Saddam Hussein.

And the world was safer, as well.

But hey, why let FACT get in the rightwingnuttery way!