Take millions of residents in a city, that is experiencing 100 degree temperature, keep reducing their access to electricity from 20 hours a day pre-war to 8 to 9 hours a day then, cut off all their water for at least three days.
Millions of people with no water for days...what makes the headlines? Another sucide bombing.
Those of us who read River's blog already know earlier certain parts of Baghdad had been without water for over three days. On Thursday, the city's mayor, Alaa Mahmoud al-Timimi, threatened to quit unless the government provides more money for repairs. Efforts to expand the water supplies were set back last month when insurgents sabotaged a pipeline near Baghdad.
Adding to that, the US and Iraq can't seem to agree on what caused it. The US is saying a transformer blew which caused the fire. Iraq is saying it was hit with two mortar shells.
My suggestion? Fix the water supply, move some of those workers from the Green Zone over there and get the water back on. Concentrate on restoring electrical service to closer to what it was under Saddam and then? Then work on building new cafeterias and gyms in the Green Zone.
Hot, angry people with no access to water for days is how you start an uprising, not a democracy.
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3 comments:
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Great recipie on the uprising, but can you make a good apple cobler? ;)
Ok, bad joke. But you need to laugh or you just go insane just thinking about the crap that goes on in the world. I know it's bad there, but was it better before? I'm really asking, because I want to know.
I like peach cobbler better but yes I can make apple :-)
In some ways it was better before, especially from an every day type survival basis. While I'm sure many believe from a political sense it is better because they are making steps towards a democracy for some of the average iraqis it seems like they have less than they had before. The fact that power and water is now worse than a year ago is a problem. The fact that many of them see the building in the Green Zone as proof that the US is not going to leave and is not concentrating on their needs first is another major problem.
Would some of them trade having Saddam back to be able to have water and 20 hours of electricity a day and not have to worry about being killed in the streets? At times they may express that while still being glade he is gone. It has to be frustrating for them to not see improvement in some very important areas. Are the insurgent/terrorists targeting utilities to create that uprising? Most definitely, however that doesn't change the level of frustration many iraqis feel for having to go thru this.
That's my impression from river as well as other iraqi sources.
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