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To: Neeka who wrote (216655)	8/22/2007 9:25:44 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793957

I hope they have a Curtis Silwa type individual that can organize other neighborhoods across the nation Part of the problem was that after living in a police state all their lives, there was absolutely no civic life. The State provided all, and watched all. After the invasion when all fell apart, the garbage piled up in the streets and everyone blamed the infidel invaders for not "doing something", or worse blaming the infidels under some wacky conspiracy theory. Nobody stood up and said, "let's clean our own streets". Total social vacuum. It's really encouraging to see stories like this where Iraqis are finally starting to take responsibility for their own neighborhoods instead of expecting the State to sweep in and do it for them.