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To: KLP who wrote (5168)8/15/2003 8:08:48 PM
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Isn't it interesting that not ONE single Iraqi quoted in that article said they had tried to help get the Baghdad power back on (THEIR own power)...

I don't think they're generally lazy people. They have to work with what's available for them. Spare parts for defective installations are certainly not easily obtained. If you read the following account of an Iraqi boy you might agree that many Iraqis are trying hard to get along.

Iraqi kids toil in Dickensian desperation
Thousands work long hours salvaging battlefield litter to support families
San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, August 13, 2003
sfgate.com

Baghdad -- Karar Ali works each day in the molten 125-degree heat of Baghdad's summer amid a giant mound of discarded ammunition. He starts his job most days about 6 a.m. and often works until 5 p.m.

Karar is 9 years old.

For more than six weeks, he and his diminutive colleagues have chipped away at each bullet until the copper casing comes away from the lead. A large sack of copper chips fetches 3,000 dinars -- about $2.80.

"I can fill half a sack if I stay here for a long day," Karar says, one pudgy hand clutching a Kalashnikov bullet that is searing hot to the touch.

"My mother says this is a good job. I give her all my earnings." ...
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