Almost 5 million fewer Iraqis than before the invasion have access to clean drinking water, and 1.3 million no longer have working sewer connections.
The US Embassy rates only 3 of Iraq's 18 provinces as militarily "stable", with 7 in "serious" or "critical" condition. Largely as a result, Bush's latest Iraq war funding request cuts almost all construction money for rebuilding in the war-ravaged nation, leaving only $100 million, and that's for building more prisons.
Paying taxes has never been anyone's idea of an enjoyable activity. But does it have to be so deadly and destructive?
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