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Baghdad, Iraq
Population:
7 Million give or take a few hundred thousand or so that may have been
killed during and since “Shock and Awe”
Worst Feature:
Car Bombs
Best Feature:
Sometimes your kids can still get free Hershey Bars from American Troops,
before getting their arms and legs blown off by Improvised Explosive Devices
Despite the rhetoric form George Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain and others
in the current administration, or the sunny reports on FOX news – Baghdad is
still quite an unsafe and none-to-pleasant place to live. Rape and murder
are rampant, even by those that are supposed to “Protect and Serve”.
As
recently as March 2007 a 20-year old married Iraqi woman said Police
Commandos took her from her home, for allegedly aiding insurgents. The woman
says she was detained and raped several times by 3 members of the police
force. Meanwhile, dozens still die every week in bombings and other attacks,
there are mass detentions of innocents, many still go without adequate
plumbing and electricity, and people have taken to burying their valuables
in various locations to keep other Iraqis and even allegedly, American
troops, from stealing them. According to the Washington Post’s Baghdad
Bureau Chief, mortar shells still fall regularly in the supposedly safe
"Green Zone".
At least two Americans have died there in recent days, and the
U.S. Embassy has just revised it’s policy, and is advising all staff to wear
their protective armour and helmets outside at all times. On the other hand
it may still be safer to live in Baghdad then it is to go on a hunting trip
with Vice President Cheney.
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