Baghdad

"(O)rdinary life is beginning to return", sez the Prez. On the other hand, Anderson Cooper talks to Michael Ware (09.13.07), via Crooks and Liars:

"(I)f the President means by ordinary lives families essentially living locked up in their homes in almost perpetual darkness, without refrigeration or perhaps constantly struggling for ever more expensive gas to run generators, if he means waiting in their homes wondering if government death squads will drag them off and torture them and execute them, if he means living in sectarian cleansed neighborhoods where people who were your friends have had to flea, if he’s talking about living in communities that are protected by militias, then yeah, life’s returned to ordinary."

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