Nobody Deserves this...well, maybe the Bush Supporters.
"This is what my family drinks every day: sewage water," he said.
"The pipes are old so drinking water and sewage are mixing. Sometimes the water smells so much ... Nobody deserves to drink this," said Mahmud, 53, who has white stubble on his face and wears a grimy dishdasha robe.
Two years later, millions of Iraqis STILL have no clean water, little if any electricity and are raped blind when it comes to fuel prices. Its not a problem that appeared overnight, its been going on pretty much from day one of the occupation and has only gotten worse.
More on the flip.
"Sometimes we don't have any water at all, let alone drinking water. We are using generators to pump out the water, but we only have electricity about one hour out of six," Mahmud said.
"When the power comes on, the whole of Sadr City flicks on the pumps. You might get water, you might not."
'Until US troops entered Baghdad two years ago, the neighbourhood was Saddam City.
Despite the name change, nothing has changed in terms of the quality of life, Mahmud said.
"We've been suffering from this problem for 30 years. Nothing was done under Saddam and nothing after," he says.
This is what helps fuel the guerilla war in Iraq.
Two YEARS of being forced to drink water with raw sewage in it, water contaminated with chemicals and waste from the rivers, and sometimes not even that available to drink. I'd be in the mood to kill the sons of bitches who promised improvements and didn't deliver too.
'Close to 40 percent of Iraqis have an unreliable supply of drinking water and almost the same percentage live in areas where sewage can be seen in the streets, the survey said.
Khaled Ibrahim Bayati, the director general of Baghdad's water department, said the production of drinking water is dramatically insufficient and deplored the fact that water projects were never followed through.'
Our Military's 'Psi-Ops' convinced a lot of Iraqis that things would be better if they didn't resist and let the USA win in Iraq. When that promise was not honored, our military and contractors took the blame. And sadly, there was good reason for that.
$8.8 billion in reconstruction money, GONE. No accountability, no explanations.
Projects stalled or cancelled due to lack of security, soldiers pulled from helping the Iraqis rebuild in order to fill combat patrols and holes from IED casualties, the list goes on and on.
Another dark stain on America's honor.