This can't be right, I thought it had become a paradise. Those pubs wouldn't lie now, would they?
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Iraq Slipping To 'New Depths Of Lawlessness'
New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | December 1, 2007 04:35 PM
Jobless men pay $500 bribes to join the police. Families build houses illegally on government land, carwashes steal water from public pipes and nearly everything the government buys or sells can now be found on the black market.
Painkillers for cancer (from the Ministry of Health) cost $80 for a few capsules; electricity meters (from the Ministry of Electricity) go for $200 each and even third-grade textbooks (stolen from the Ministry of Education) must be bought at bookstores for three times what schools once charged.
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Nonstop Theft and Bribery Are Staggering Iraq - New York Times