It is time now that the world would say to America 'that's enough, stop what you're doing to Iraq and its people...Saddam was a tyrant, but we didn't see in his era this killing and destruction - Mohamed Al Imam, a cloths shop owner

10/1/2004 September was one the deadliest months in Iraq since the start of the US occupation, with Iraq now being labeled the world's most hostile environment. While headlines around the world reported car bombs and kidnappings, the US backed Iraqi Health Ministry reported that the US has killed nearly twice as many Iraqis, most of them civilians, as attacks by the resistance.
"[T]he interim Iraqi government recorded 3,487 Iraqi deaths in 15 of the country's 18 provinces from April 5, when the ministry began compiling the data, until Sept. 19. Of those, 328 were women and children. An additional 13,720 Iraqis were injured."
The disaster in Iraq extends far beyond the fighting. Iraq's water and sanitation services are failing and Hepatitis is spreading in 2 Iraqi districts and the country as a whole faces a soaring toll of deadly disease. While Bush and Allawi tout reconstruction, Iraqis' report that "electricity is drastically less than pre-war levels", the cost of electricity is up and "on our better days" Baghdad gets only about 12 hours of electricity. The UN has also reported that thousands of schools in Iraq lack basics for decent education.
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