The Grants

"The grants

It has been about a month and we're still without electricity in the clinic I work in, it has been a month since I really treated a patient, I just write prescriptions now and I really hate working like this but what can I do…we don't have national grid support to the clinic because it has been built recently and as I said before it's in the outskirts of Baghdad so nobody cares about it since no one of the "hot shots" from the ministry will go there so our requests is lost between the awful Bureaucratic procedures …we used to have a generator to support us with the electricity that we need but it broke down about a month ago and we wrote countless requests to the manager of the whole health offices in the district and he didn't move a hair… 3 days ago we went to talk to him and he said it's not my business! Then whose business is it?"
Last of Iraqis

Try as you may, you'll never convince him. They have been brutalized by years of corruption which over the years will break the best of men. From colonization to the years of tyranny, it's all they have ever know. You cant ask them to just up one day and see the world through different eyes. If the situation were reversed, they would steal our wealth, like they did the day they crossed the boarder of Kuwait.


There is only one cure, "if" Iraq continues along a path toward democracy, the "next" generation will see the world through different eyes.

Remember most of these people have lived in Iraq all their live and it only now that they have discovered that there is not enough electricity, or that their health system is so bad, or that Iraq suffers from chronic lack of infrastructure for water and sewage....