I laughed out loud reading this. From - who else? - Betty Bowers. Here's a very short excerpt via IowaNiceGuy (be sure to click and read the whole thing, it's fabulous!):
Most Iraqis, I am told, believe that they are "better off" becoming violently ill from drinking filthy water while dodging bullets under the elusive promise of shifting democracy and inevitable specter of bloody civil war than they were being victimized by the clean water and electricity Saddam Hussein ruthlessly used to curry favor.
