A View from the Other Side.......
Of course, now that we're THERE, we have to persisit.
But you think two days in a protected part of town gives you the whole picture?
>"The lack of power is most Iraqis' number one gripe, but the list is long: uninstalled phone lines, shoddily repaired schools, clogged roads, uncollected garbage, defective sewerage, a nonexistent bureaucracy, mass unemployment and widespread poverty - the general chaos that Iraq is still in today. Iraqis are in broad agreement that life is deteriorating rather than improving."
Even the price of simple food and necessities has more than quadrupled after the invasion.
Here's this from the Asia Times, not exactly a <cakewalk>