There is no life at all," Solaf Mohamed Ali, 38, a Shiite woman who works in a bank. USA TODAY interviewed Ali and other Baghdad residents to supplement the poll findings. "We are eating, drinking and sleeping like animals, but animals are lucky because they are not scared all the time like we are. They don't think that they might be killed at any moment, so I think even the animals are much happier than us."
There was very little trust in U.S. and British troops. By a ratio of more than 4-to-1 — 82%-to-18% — Iraqis surveyed said they had little confidence in coalition forces.
About 33% saw "effective" reconstruction efforts, while 67% — 15 percentage points higher than in a similar ABC News survey taken in November 2005 — called them "ineffective."
Nearly one in 10 said they hadn't seen any reconstruction efforts begun
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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WOW! Nearly 1/10 said they hadn't seen any reconstruction begin?
They must be thinking in net terms: if things are getting destroyed faster than they are built, no reconstruction is taking place.
That's a neat theory. Reminds me of the joke about the tornado hitting Metairie and doing two million dollars' worth of improvements.
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