Once an Arab model, Baghdad now world's worst city
As recently as the 1970s, Baghdad was lauded as a model city in the Arab world. But now, after decades of seemingly endless conflict, it is the world's worst city.
That is, at least, according to the latest survey by the Mercer consulting group, which when assessing quality of life across 239 cities, measuring factors including political stability, crime and pollution, placed Baghdad last.
The Iraqi capital was lumped with Bangui in the conflict-hit Central African Republic and the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, the latest confirmation of the 1,250-year-old city's fall from grace as a global intellectual, economic and political centre.
Residents of Baghdad contend with near-daily attacks, a lack of electricity and clean water, poor sewerage and drainage systems, rampant corruption, regular gridlock, high unemployment and a myriad other problems.
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It just hurts too much for words. Halliburton owes them a functional city. Cheney ought to be stripped of every fuck you dime he has, to pay for rebuilding.
Wish the Hague would put him on trial in absentia, and could freeze his assets to pay for electricity and clean water. He owes them at least that much.
