Reply #10: wtf is wrong with these people? They VOTED! They are FREE.....

[leftchick]

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"I have difficulties in taking lessons with more than 25 students inside a tent originally designed for 10," said 12-year-old Azhar Khalil.

"It's like hell, but what you gonna do? To idle away a whole year is no option," said the child.

"I have asthma and the tent would not protect us from cold. Isuffocate continuously due to the bad ventilation," complained Nuha Mahmood, who is 14.

She recalled that her classmate Mays Hassan was sitting near the blackboard in the front row one day when a storm came and the falling board hit right on her head. She was transferred to hospital unconscious.

Situations are no better in Samarra, another once rebel-controlled city that had been stormed by US and Iraqi forces last summer.

The city, 110 km north of Baghdad, boasted a golden-domedmosque, home to a Muslim holy shrine, and the spiral minaret, a trademark historic structure in Iraq.

Since the bloodshed, the once busy industrial city has become one of the deprived areas in Iraq, as business has come into a virtual stalemate and citizens can hardly find enough necessities in local market.