Riverbend: You Know Your Country is in Trouble

I don't have much to say about the Saddam hanging. He got what he's long deserved. Just another former US client. Most don't get EVER get a deserved accounting(witness Pinochet). Saddam Hussein deserved what he got. But personally it wasn't worth the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed by dubya and the thousands of US troop's deaths brought on by dubya to avenge his daddy's honor from his daddy's own former henchman and nemesis. Since I don't watch much cable "News", if I can help it, I will assume that the hanging covered up news of the Iraqi civil war and other points not favorable to Bushco for a few days. This is from Baghdad Burning:
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End of Another Year...

You know your country is in trouble when:

1. The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI.

2. Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.

3. The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.

4. The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.

5. An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's 'Golden Years'.

6. Your country is purportedly 'selling' 2 million barrels of oil a day, but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for the generator.

7. For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity and then the government announces it's going to cut back on providing that hour.

8. Politicians who supported the war spend tv time debating whether it is 'sectarian bloodshed' or 'civil war'.

9.People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks.

A day in the life of the average Iraqi has been reduced to identifying corpses, avoiding car bombs and attempting to keep track of which family members have been detained, which ones have been exiled and which ones have been abducted.
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