But its effects also accrue to the US. And the face of the US to the average Iraqi is a US soldier.
The sabotage is designed to discredit the US - and if it succeeds, the soldiers will be the ones to face the anger of the Iraqi people.
Iraq’s electricity crisis won’t be getting better any time soon, the top U.S. civil administrator said Wednesday.
Millions of Iraqis across the country have experienced long periods without power since the United States and Britain started the campaign to overthrow the Saddam Hussein-led government.
In the last week, Baghdad residents have been frequently left with only a few hours of power each day — especially painful during the middle of summer, when temperatures are constantly topping 110 degrees.
Saboteurs and the former regime are to blame for Iraq’s electrical woes, said Paul Bremer, who heads the Coalition Provisional Authority. Bremer told a group of Iraqi journalists that he knows the situation is a serious one.
“I can understand the people’s impatience,” he said. “Ask my staff, they would tell you I’m rather impatient myself.”
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