This is from May of this year:
"Forget Abu Ghraib. There is no one topic that arouses anti-American
passion, inflames conspiracy theories, or just plain enrages Iraqis more
than the electricity question. People who experienced last summer's
blackout in the northeastern US got a brief taste of what it's like to
be without electricity for a couple of hours, maybe half a day. Now
imagine living like that for a year and two months, in one of the
hottest countries in the world. And all the time hearing that you're
supposed to be grateful because the most powerful country in the world
has come to bring enlightenment to your darkened land.
And I think that's why you hear so little about normal life in Iraq
these days. Because, during war, there's no such thing as normal life.
Basic services are disrupted, personal security is no longer taken for
granted, and even getting from point A to point B is difficult. It's the
awful limbo that you live in between the bombings and the assassinations
that makes it so hard, and so depressing, to be a civilian caught in the
middle of a war. "
<http://weblogs.csmonitor.com/notebook_iraq/2004/05/index.html#a00014835
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I know that I would be pissed if I had to endure that type of lifestyle.
Stephen Russell
S.R. & Associates
Memphis, TN 38115
901.246-0159
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