[MD_Willington_1976]

However, public services such as electricity and water supplies have not improved.

Doesn't help when your own people are stealing copper from transformers and bus bars from substations to sell it for scrap...Plus anything that was not destroyed in desert storm was in rough shape COMMBLOC or shody European equipment to begin with...

[Arabs only 600 years behind us]

"Doesn't help when your own people are stealing copper from transformers and bus bars from substations to sell it for scrap"

All good points, but don't forget the neo-libs are now against the equitable distribution of wealth because it's tuesday and if their morals get in the way of their latest argument, then they can always be changed.

Baghdad and a few areas in the sunni triangle got 24/7 power, at the expense of other areas like Basra and the south, some of which only got three hours a day. Now all get around 16. Hence why the BBC can only get a few people to still complain about power, but that is all they need to fool the useful idiots.