Cruel Summer
Its officially Summer on the Planet, Summer in Iraq is different, it means no sleep at night continuous frustration and having to cope with the Heat.
I feel it so much, even thou I'm not in Iraq, but I can feel it.
I remember very well last Summer and the previous ones, its like a nightmare, you have to figure out how to get enough water to have a decent shower, its a continuous ordeal with the Generators getting the running and dreaming about some 20 liters of Gasoline to run them, running up and down the stairs to the Roof to make sure its not going to blow up due to the heat and hard vibration, Oil changes each two days. and when it does breakdown oh dear..
fresh food, your always concerned when buying frozen goods, because you don't know how many times these goods have melted and been re frozen.
standing in the scourging heat in line in front of the baker, getting nervous in case an idiot decides to blow himself up in the queue or shoots you from a fast going bike.
fixing the house appliances because everything seems to break down daily due to the pressure applied on them and the heat that reaches 50 Celsius or more.
patching the Air coolers and cleaning them and making sure that water doesn't leak from them, not that Iraqis don't have Air conditioners but because you cant run an Air conditioner on your small generator.
and last but not least the Water Pumps you better have at least one spare lying around or you ll suffocate from the heat.
Summer is so Cruel in Iraq... it gives me the shivers just remembering it...
Here its Raining....
I feel it so much, even thou I'm not in Iraq, but I can feel it.
I remember very well last Summer and the previous ones, its like a nightmare, you have to figure out how to get enough water to have a decent shower, its a continuous ordeal with the Generators getting the running and dreaming about some 20 liters of Gasoline to run them, running up and down the stairs to the Roof to make sure its not going to blow up due to the heat and hard vibration, Oil changes each two days. and when it does breakdown oh dear..
fresh food, your always concerned when buying frozen goods, because you don't know how many times these goods have melted and been re frozen.
standing in the scourging heat in line in front of the baker, getting nervous in case an idiot decides to blow himself up in the queue or shoots you from a fast going bike.
fixing the house appliances because everything seems to break down daily due to the pressure applied on them and the heat that reaches 50 Celsius or more.
patching the Air coolers and cleaning them and making sure that water doesn't leak from them, not that Iraqis don't have Air conditioners but because you cant run an Air conditioner on your small generator.
and last but not least the Water Pumps you better have at least one spare lying around or you ll suffocate from the heat.
Summer is so Cruel in Iraq... it gives me the shivers just remembering it...
Here its Raining....
4 comments:
Blame Bruno's "patrotic resistance"
Lets see about 100 dead americans per month ... but that translates
in how much suffering for Iraq's ???
1) how many children will die because water projects are postponed and curtailed because
of security cost overuns and the violence ???
2) how many Iraqi who have special
medicinal needs and surgical requirements will die because
moneu must be diverted to security
instead of hospitales and clinics ??
And how many of Iraqs best doctors have been killed or left the country ???
3) How many elderly Iraqi ... proud
people who go way back before Saddam will die in the Heat this summer because "the Patriots"
target the engineering convoys
and goverment officials.
The "Patriotic resistance" and the foolish Shia militias are
"bleeding the Americans" ...
well yes they are ... but at what cost to their "Iraqi Brothers" ???
Iranians amd Syrians must also be proud as they also contribute to this "bleeding" ... killing a couple of Americans per day
and watching Iraqi citizens suffer
100 fold !!!
Those Syrians and Iranians what
good fellow mid-Eastern neighbors they have been .
[anon] “Blame Bruno's "patrotic resistance”
Resistance to invasion hardly caused an electricity shortage. The utter incompetence of the US “engineers” that tried and failed to tinker with Iraq’s electrical grid saw to that. The looting and mayhem that the US allowed – encouraged, even – saw to it that Iraq’s electrical grid was totally gutted. In fact, so much copper was looted that the world copper price dipped.
[anon] “how many children will die because water projects are postponed and curtailed because
of security cost overuns and the violence ???”
Evidently you are unaware that the US has declared the “reconstruction”, such as it was, to be OVER. Yes, according to Amreeka, Iraq is patched up and ready to go. Also, it’s interesting that NOW Americans are worrying about what is gonna happen to Iraqi children. Funny, when you bombed Iraqi water treatment plants in 1991 and then refused to allow water purification chemicals into Iraq, THE US KNEW that Iraqi children were going to die, but who cared then, right? Albright, when challenged on the 500000 dead Iraqi children the sanctions had caused, affirmed that these dead children were “worth” the price of American dominance over Iraq.
[anon] “how many Iraqi who have special medicinal needs and surgical requirements will die because moneu must be diverted to security instead of hospitales and clinics ?? And how many of Iraqs best doctors have been killed or left the country ???”
Good question. Since the utter lawlessness that the US invasion has created ran rampant, Iraqi doctors have been prime targets for criminal gangs. The US has been completely unable to ensure the safety of ordinary citizens. Not only that, but they routinely run the risk of being killed by either the security forces the US supports or US soldiers themselves. “Truthteller” is an Iraqi doctor, and he nearly got shot through the head by one of the American thugs.
[anon] “How many elderly Iraqi ... proud people who go way back before Saddam will die in the Heat this summer because "the Patriots" target the engineering convoys and goverment officials.”
LOL! Right … AS IF killing the useless and irrelevant government officials would make any difference anyway. But the real point is, the US HAS FINISHED ‘rebuilding’. It’s over. And the TRUTH IS, the US has concentrated mainly on training up pro-US militias, commandos and various thugs, as well as building prisons to hold all the Iraqis that thought they had a say in running their own country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/11/AR2006111101076.html
“Three-quarters of the primary fund for rebuilding has been spent and the rest has been set aside for finishing key projects. Overall, 88 percent of planned projects -- about 12,000 -- have been completed, with just 4 percent yet to begin.”
And an additional truth is that IRAQIS THEMSELVES could have done a far better job for less than the Halliburton “cost plus” goons. Riverbend’s cousin put in a bid for fixing an Iraqi bridge the US destroyed. His IRAQI bid came in at ten times less than the AMERICAN bid that got the job. The entire reconstruction show was a pork-barrel initiative to enrich AMERICAN COMPANIES.
Sorry, I lied.
The Iraqi quote came in at about ONE HUNDRED TIMES LESS than the US bid, yet the Amreekans got the job:
RIVERBEND:
“Iraqi engineers had to rebuild Iraq after the first Gulf War in 1991 when the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ was composed of over 30 countries actively participating in bombing Baghdad beyond recognition. They had to cope with rebuilding bridges and buildings that were originally built by foreign companies, they had to get around a lack of raw materials that we used to import from abroad, they had to work around a vicious blockade designed to damage whatever infrastructure was left after the war… they truly had to rebuild Iraq. And everything had to be made sturdy, because, well, we were always under the threat of war.
Over a hundred of the 133 bridges were rebuilt, hundreds of buildings and factories were replaced, communications towers were rebuilt, new bridges were added, electrical power grids were replaced… things were functioning. Everything wasn’t perfect- but we were working on it.”
And:
“One of my cousins works in a prominent engineering company in Baghdad- we’ll call the company H. […]
As May was drawing to a close, his manager told him that someone from the CPA wanted the company to estimate the building costs of replacing the New Diyala Bridge on the South East end of Baghdad. He […] came up with a number they tentatively put forward- $300,000. This included new plans and designs, raw materials (quite cheap in Iraq), labor, contractors, travel expenses, etc.
[…]
A week later, the New Diyala Bridge contract was given to an American company. This particular company estimated the cost of rebuilding the bridge would be around- brace yourselves- $50,000,000 !!”
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#106208201838841818#106208201838841818
That ticks me off man!!
The power is shut down in baghdad for each 30 hours verse 1 hour on!!
Welcome to Democrcy and freedom :(
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