The situation in Baghdad: Quote:
The first thing you'll notice is the traffic: one of the coalition's successes is the extent of car ownership, even if the shortage of fuel means there are queues half a mile long outside many petrol stations. The second is the shops. They're full of goods nowadays, and plenty of people brave the possibility of car bombs to throng them. Things are expensive and inflation is high. So is unemployment: perhaps above 50%. There is malnutrition, and the level of infant mortality is still disturbingly high. But in the cities, at any rate, most people seem to get by.
But there's one unquestioned success for the coalition: every available wall has a tattered election poster on it. True, three months after the last election Iraq still has no government, but the old terror of authority has evaporated. There are dozens of newspapers, plenty of television channels, and hundreds of thousands of satellite dishes: under Saddam Hussein, you could be jailed for having one.
Many are still glad that Saddam Hussein was taken off their backs. But there is a real, abiding anger that the richest nation on Earth should have taken over their country and made them even worse off in so many ways than they were before.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4825200.stm | Is that anger enough to push people into insurgency?
Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
Raúl M. Núñez Sheriff
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