Iraqis more worried about level of public services than violence

[Barrett808]

Iraqis more worried about level of public services than violence
By Khalid Taleb

Iraqis are much more worried about the deteriorating standard of public services than the spiraling violence and mounting insecurity, a study has revealed.

The survey, by Baghdad University, shows that issues like public transport, fuel shortages, power outages, food rations and unemployed were more of a worry for the majority of Iraqis than “terror or resistance.”

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Many were deeply worried about the drastic decline in the amount of food rations Iraqi families have been receiving in the post-Saddam era and their deteriorating quality.

Respondents were unanimous in their criticism of government reports that it would scrap the food ration program, saying millions of Iraqis would go hungry without subsidized food.

Operations by anti-U.S. groups and violence were still a matter of real concern but not regarded by most respondents as “crucial as the public services.”

The majority of respondents differentiated between “resistance” which they justified and ‘terrorism” which they condemned.

The study found that resisting “occupation troops” was a national duty for many respondents.

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http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2005-12-03\113.htm

[ninkasi]

1. So Iraqis are much worse off

as a result of Bush's illegal war. They also see resisting occupation troops as patriotic, as we would, if a foreign power invaded us. Bush has caused so much death and destruction, no wonder the Iraqis want us to leave. I don't blame them.

Bush...the worst president ever, the most hated man in the world. What an accomplishment. He has also succeeded in running this country into financial ruin, and gutting the Constitution. He has been nothing but a disaster for us, and the rest of the world.

[NI4NI]

2. Media Good News?

Bushbots want the media to report on the "good things that are happening in the war", as if war is a cornucopia of good things. Maybe they mean things like rebuilding all the schools that we destroyed in the first place; Or maybe getting rid of all the raw shit and sewage that have been running in city streets since 2003; Or having electricity for longer than half the day?
It's just so friggin' unreal how far it is that this all-time goofy-ass, gutless in 'Nam time, but gung-ho to attack a devastated third rate country time chicken-chit president of theirs has set America and Iraq so far back it's criminal!
If incompentence was a felony, George Dumya Bush would be serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.