A good article comparing southern Iraq with more violent areas of the country.
Since it has been quiet in southern Iraq, infrastructure repair has been able to move forward and the population can see life improving.
Most of southern Iraq is getting more electricity today than in prewar periods. The same goes for water supplies. Few cars wait to get gas unlike in the capital where lines at pumps stretch for hundreds of yards.
People are also making more money than under the Saddam regime.
''We don't think that the process is going to take a generation here. We think that the process is in motion,'' said Maj. Ralf Dengler, Marine executive officer in Dhi Qar Province, of which Nassiriyah is the provincial capital.
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