Discontent Surges in Iraq


	Discontent Surges in Iraq

tabsey

1-21-2008 2:21 AM

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A winter of discontent.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1e8c7b3c-7b75-43b7-a55b-df57136b617b/7F1F34DA-FF6A-4197-964D-63498C670A41/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012008C.shtml" href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012008C.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.truthout.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012008C.shtml"><P><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    Baghdad - In the depths of a strangely cold winter in the Middle East, Iraqis complain that the lights are not on, the kerosene heaters are without fuel and the water doesn't flow  -  and they blame the government. 
</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012008C.shtml"><P><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    And with the war nearing its fifth anniversary, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is feeling the discontent as well from the most powerful political centers in the majority Shiite community. 
</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012008C.shtml"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    It's a pincer movement of domestic anger that yet again could threaten al-Maliki's hold on his Green Zone office. 
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012008C.shtml"><P><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    "Where's the kerosene and the water?" asked Amjad Kazim, a 56-year-old Shiite who lives in eastern Baghdad. "We hear a lot of promises but we see nothing." 
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