I'VE BEEN CRITICAL of the ORHA in the past because Iraqi anger will ulitmately be taken out on our soldiers. I know it is easy for me to sit here and snipe about what is happening over there, but it seems to me that - with a couple of million folks out of work in the city - a suitcase full of dollars could probably organize some sort of impromptu garbage service. And the power still isn't on?

In the tightknit Kemp al Arman section of central Baghdad, there are often just two hours of electricity a day.

Many families have been forgoing meat for more than a month, water only trickles from the taps, and garbage is piling up knee-deep on the street corners.

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