Troops face social ills, not bullets in Sadr City

[KKKarl is an idiot]

BAGHDAD - Heavily armed soldiers trudge through the fetid streets of Sadr City, gagging from the stench of open sewage, eyes warily scanning ahead for trouble. Suddenly, a middle-aged man approaches — and begs for a job.

“We are a peaceful people,” the man tells the interpreter. “We only want to work and feed our families. Now is the time for people to come and offer us jobs.” The Americans shrug helplessly — they’ve heard these complaints before — but tell him help is on its way.

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U.S. soldiers worry that unless things improve — and soon — the people of Sadr City will quickly tire of the foreigners’ presence.

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During a patrol last week, American troops brushed flies from their faces as they drove through rotting heaps of refuse and excrement piled outside houses. One soldier opened the door to his Humvee and vomited.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17605823/
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"The decider" makes the decision for these people to remain where they are. Is this any better than the way we treated African Americans when they were slaves. Where is all that good news coming out of Iraq? Iraq was once a developing nation. Even the nation under Saddam Hussein that had sanctions did better than this mess.

[Javaman]

1. So let's see...

we bomb the city back to the stone age. cut off all public utilities, give rise to secular militia groups that commit random acts of violence against each others religious beliefs let alone against our troops, televised be-headings, kidnappings, suicide bombers by the dozen, and a complete break down of all social norms, and it's only now reported that the issues that troops face in Sadr City are more to due with social ILLS??????

Holy shit, the day the social ills started was when that mother fucker* in the WH ordered the first bombs to be dropped.

4 God damn years later and they are only know finding out that these poor people have been living on the edge of survival?????

We are so fucked.

I get so tired of living in an alternative universe.