Baghdad has no water..Thanks BushCo!
August 3rd, 2007 | by Dusty | Published in Corruption in Govt, Iraq War, Politics | 11 Comments
Christ, this is so disgusting I have no words to describe my anger. From AP comes this:
BAGHDAD - Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer. Residents and city officials said large sections in the west of the capital had been virtually dry for six days because the already strained electricity grid cannot provide sufficient power to run water purification and pumping stations.
Baghdad routinely suffers from periodic water outages, but this one is described by residents as one of the most extended and widespread in recent memory. The problem highlights the larger difficulties in a capital beset by violence, crumbling infrastructure, rampant crime and too little electricity to keep cool in the sweltering weather more than four years after the U.S.-led invasion.
Jamil Hussein, a 52-year-old retired army officer who lives in northeast Baghdad, said his house has been without water for two weeks, except for two hours at night. He says the water that does flow smells and is unclean. Two of his children have severe diarrhea that the doctor attributed to drinking what tap water was available, even after it was boiled. “We’ll have to continue drinking it, because we don’t have money to buy bottled water,” he said. Adel al-Ardawi, a spokesman for the Baghdad city government, said that even with sufficient electricity “it would take 24 hours for the water mains to refill so we can begin pumping to residents. And even then the water won’t be clean for a time. We just don’t have the electricity or fuel for our generators to keep the system flowing.”
Noah Miller, spokesman for the U.S. reconstruction program in Baghdad, said that water treatment plants were working “as far as we know.”
Who the hell is Noah kidding? Wotta load of bullshit. There is more to the story if you care to read it..I just can’t put it up…its beyond reprehensible. There are millions of children, and elderly..and just ordinary human beings suffering in the heat..without a drop of water. Oh fuck yeah..they are so much better off after Saddam….
Tags: Baghdad, Federal Fuckwits at the Helm, Water everywhere but none to drink, Life after Saddam
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August 3rd, 2007at 7:04 am(#)
How can anyone say This is better? better than what? I met a young Iraqi this summer…and I finally did what I have wanted to do for years, I told him How Sorry and ashamed I am of OUR Country did to his Country…..he put it quite simply..”YOU are not YOUR Government”….I felt sick..and admitted he was right….But I still felt ashamed and sad…and frankly after reading this….horrified…Again…
August 3rd, 2007at 8:32 am(#)
I read about it in the middle of the night. I too was horrified and then very, very ANGRY E4E. The temps are around 114..I know, I have it on my yahoo home page. People will die in that temperature without water.
Wonder if the MSM has this story up yet..or rather..will they put it OUT there for people to read.
August 3rd, 2007at 11:41 am(#)
Hi Dusty
You know what is sick is that you mention the water and how they aften have to go without clean, fresh or any water. The same thing applies to electricity where if they have it at all it is from a private entrepenuer.
They keep touting the successes but fail to remind us that after all this time they have spent Billions and have failed miserably as every success for Bush has been destroyed and made a success for Islamists.
Last wekk the U.S.stopped reporting on the level of electricity and other infrastructure as it is getting progressively worse.
Also the success Bush calls the rebuilding of Iraq’s military and police cannot field a single stand alone fighting Battalion. Not only that but the Government still refuses to take control of one of the 2,000 construction projects because they can not secure them and we are forced to. Some friggen success. Worse is that it will only get a lot worse and no one can turn it around. What bothers me on top of all that is that Jimbo is going back next June and who knows what it will look like then. By the way what is E4E?
August 3rd, 2007at 11:51 am(#)
Dusty & Enigma
I just linked to the Sirens Chronicles because I see you are both there and often I guess! Have a nice week end I will be here.
August 3rd, 2007at 11:52 am(#)
E4E is shorthand for Enigma Jim
God, you other son going back there. I hope it’s all rolling back by then..I have to think that way, or I will pop a artery.
August 3rd, 2007at 1:16 pm(#)
Dusty
Damn, my computer froze and I just got it back up. Anyway I never would have realized E4E stood for enigma, go figure! Yes Jimbo will be here in October with his wife and girls but he says he should be going back to Iraq in October.
Needless to say he uis conflicted. He and his wife both know how I feel but he has a lot to weigh and I shouldn’t add to it but of course I put in my two cents but I try to walk softly.
I can only hope he stays safe and returns to his wife and kids in one piece. I don’t help by telling him to go slow because he will be called on again as Bush is not done causing warsand Pakistan, Iran, or both at the same time could be next and soon.
August 3rd, 2007at 1:43 pm(#)
so hard to walk softly about something so awful..so sorry Jim…( about Sirens, Dusty and I write for Sirens…but hearing what you are going through- if you want to come here or over to Watergate Summer- yes, e4e, or Enigma’s cafe…please know that we understand….sorry Dusty- didn’t mean to speak for you…but I did…)
The problem is that Bush has NO diplomacy skills and NO Empathy , for the Hell he hath wrought here and abroad…it is about Consequences, this spolied rotten frat boy has caused suh agony in so many places and to so many people….he and His regime…
And Dusty you are right- the heat will Kill…probally more than ar bombs this month…..and there is Nothing we can do….
( I send money to the International Red Cross- I have no idea if that makes a damn differene- but I have to do that - or my head would explode)
August 3rd, 2007at 2:55 pm(#)
Oh that was unclear…Jim I meant to say that you can come here or over to WS…Dusty and I are listening…( I think my brain is fried…94 friggin degrees here)…anyways..above I meant car bombs….okay…all done now…errors repaired..
August 3rd, 2007at 4:01 pm(#)
I got ya beat E4E..over 100 here today..and muggy.
Jim..Sumo, Enigma, moi and a host of good writers are here..its one stop blogging m’dear friend
We are glad you have joined us!
August 3rd, 2007at 6:12 pm(#)
( yeah like 6 degree different….I feel cooler already…;-)
August 3rd, 2007at 6:21 pm(#)
Six degrees is A LOT.. at least it is to me