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Iraqis desperate for water.

thinkprogress.org — Although the United States has spent $2.4 billion on Iraq’s water and sanitation sector since 2003, the United Nations “estimates that less than half of Iraqis get drinking water piped into their homes in rural areas. In the capital, people set their alarm clocks to wake them in the middle of the night so they can fill storage tanks when water pres

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  • barbaragordon, on 08/24/2008, -2/+16It's interesting because Iraq is generating around $80 billion this year from oil revenue alone, so they would appear to have the money to get things moving themselves.
  • anarchytv, on 08/25/2008, -1/+8George Bush: let them drink Coke!
  • MercyPolitics, on 08/25/2008, -1/+6Iraq has become a giant black hole for the US tax payers' money. A reverse ATM machine....unless you are Halliburton or Blackwater. This is a thing a beauty as far as business plan: You have your friends of the military-industrial complex making loads of cash when you break it down. Then you pretend to be concerned about the well being of Iraqis ....but of course you don't use the money to do any of the reconstruction. What a brilliant business scheme. This is just pathetic, the Bush administration should be held accountable and put on trial in La Hague.
  • t3rmv3locity, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5They may not have any water, but they can put two million songs on an iPod.
    Wait, what?
  • UncommonSoap, on 08/25/2008, -1/+5No *****, its the desert.
  • baudman, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3Prob can get hot and cold running oil though... sadly...
  • britblogger, on 08/24/2008, -4/+7I'm betting they'll get their water sooner than those in New Orleans did after Katrina.
  • JakeAndersyn, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2As if they didn't have enough problems already...
  • pinkpackrat, on 08/25/2008, -1/+2Wouldn't Cheney, Rummie and Karl Rove look great in orange jump suits? Bushie should be sent to Gitmo:-)
  • UntouchableC, on 08/25/2008, -1/+2[citation needed]

  • JonMelon, on 08/25/2008, -2/+3What's up with the iTunes ad in the story pic?
  • inactive, on 08/24/2008, -5/+5To barbaragordon

    It would seem that we've already spent plenty to rebuild the water infrastructure that we destroyed. But it would also seem that the Republicans' plans have proven incompetent as usual.

  • echriswa, on 08/25/2008, -1/+0I believe what they do not tell you is the U.S. is holding that money under the U.N. sanctions!

    A little insurance that we'll get permanent bases in their country. If we don't get permanent bases then we 'lost' the war.

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