WTF Is It Now?!?

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Facing reality
"Whether he's in a hole or in jail, it does nothing for me today, it won't feed me or protect me or send my children to school."

Iraqis, overjoyed at Saddam's capture, are still steamed at the misadministration as they contend daily with bloodshed, shortages and soaring prices under U.S. occupation.

"This is an oil country and it should be rich. It should not be Afghanistan."

Other drivers echoed the complaints of chronic fuel shortages in a country with the world's second-largest oil reserves, as well as of their treatment at the hands of troops who have killed civilians while hunting suspected Saddam partisans or pursuing criminals with Iraqi police.

"The Americans promised freedom and prosperity; what's this? Go up to their headquarters, at one of those checkpoints where they point their guns at you, and tell them that you hate them as much as Saddam, and see what they do to you," said Mohammad Saleh, 39, a building contractor. "The only difference is that Saddam would kill you in private, where the Americans will kill you in public."

"A lot of things -- safety, freedom, prosperity -- that we were supposed to have are gone. They promised many things, and now that they have caught Saddam maybe they kept one."

- - from Yahoo News.