Ethnic cleansing doesn't have to be labor-intensive

Swopa, Needlenose

From the Associated Press today: Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer. Residents and city officials said large sections in the west of the capital had been virtually dry for six days because the already strained electricity grid cannot provide sufficient power to run water purification and pumping stations. Guess what, the western parts of Baghdad are the predominantly Sunni neighborhoods. And they're also where most of the abandoned bodies of death squad victims are found. I'm sure, though, that it's just a coincidence that the Shiite government finds it so hard to provide running water in those neighborhoods....

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