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...able to provide assistance very quickly to people. And we've created job programs, and we have helped address some shortfalls of central services - like when the government is unable to provide electricity, or security concerns have prevented them from maintaining electrical lines. We've given out in this area in the last few months hundreds of microgrants of $1,000 or $2,000 to help small businesses develop and get their feet off the ground...
...kind of became very day-to-day very quickly. When I was a platoon leader, I lived in a converted meat-packing plant, [and] we were able to go out and meet the people. It's not like it looks like on television - even just the diversity of the area. Where I was living, even though it was in Baghdad, it is actually very, very rural. We had to move our strykers to let herds of sheep go by. Then you go maybe 15 kilometers, or even 5 kilometers to the west or east and it gets very urban. Also...
...progress Things are definitely getting better here. I'm not one to be overly optimistic about anything, but even during the time my unit has been in this area, we have seen things get better. We have seen people come back to jobs. Things have gotten much more secure. But I think everybody else realizes that it's so very tenuous. Things could fall apart so quickly...
...barriers around Baghdad They're concrete walls like on the western bank. Areas cut from areas. It's not a very nice view to look at. You see all the people behind the barriers. Even in the area of the green zone, there are concrete barriers so high you wouldn't believe it. Probably about 3 or 4 meters. When you see this, you don't feel welcome. They wouldn't give you the impression that things would be good. Segregation of the areas won't give...
...without any plans. My parents are old so they cannot really move easily. In fact, one of the things that happened when they left Iraq, my parents, my mother, she didn't even go to the house that we were living in - the one that I left - because the area, al Dora, is so full of insurgents, it's almost no-man zone. No one can go there. So they left Iraq not even going to the house that they used to live in with everything there. They just left it. It was that dramatic. They just drove...