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How to tell your country's in trouble

RIVERBEND, BAGHDAD - You know your country is in trouble when:

1. The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos
and bloodshed, UNAMI.

2. Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.

3. The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state
can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.

4. The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating
state of your nation.
5. An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's
'Golden Years'.

6. Your country is purportedly 'selling' 2 million barrels of oil a day,
but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for
the generator.

7. For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public
electricity and then the government announces it's going to cut back on
providing that hour.

8. Politicians who supported the war spend TV time debating whether it
is 'sectarian bloodshed' or 'civil war'.

9. People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the
corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks.

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