While Washington gushes over the newly minted Iraq interim Constitution: An Iraqi Writes

An excerpt:

They say: Iraq rebuilding programs? Where are these things? How long that we have to wait? A decade? A century? Just let us know. If you think that the process of Iraq rebuilding is going on, you are absolutely wrong! They are only sucking Iraqi oil with no refund.

When I look to the situation as a whole searching for a single thing done after the invasion, I can barely find one or two things. Do you know that we are still suffering from power failures more than 16 hours daily! In pre-invasion time we had only 8 hours cuts. Even when we had power failure, Baghdad wasn’t suffering like that. So people there in Baghdad are not adapted for these long hours of power failure (unlike them, we have our own generators which can help us a little bit).

People there are also suffering from loss of security and robbing, much more than we suffer. They are now buying generators, and trying not to get out of their houses after 8:00 pm, in an effort to cope with these situations. They may be able to get through this, but we all need to know, when this is going to end? Is it going to last just like Saddam's time?

I visited the Convention Center there in Baghdad, and it is in what they call ‘The Green Zone.’ Inside this zone, life is really green! You can find anything you want, in other words, the Americans have built their own paradise in the middle of the hell. Can’t they make whole Baghdad a green zone? Safe not just for them, but for Iraqis also? Can’t the strongest country in the world fight against a bunch of gangsters and looters? Nobody knows.

Things are getting worse for the average Iraqi. That is the opinion of U.N. and NGOs.

While Baghdad burns, Bush fiddles.