Yes George, you’ve done the Iraqis a world of good, haven’t you. Things are sooooooo much better now for them then when Saddam was dictating! Unimaginable violence, sweltering heat with no water and an hour of electricity a day if they’re lucky, half the nation is living in absolute poverty…… heckuva job!!!

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.

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