Hoping for magic from Americans

May 13: A retired teacher whose furniture was stolen. A 6-year-old girl whose stomach hurt. A man wounded by a stray bullet in 2004 in northern Iraq. Another man who wants a surgeon to examine his hand, disfigured in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war. Scores and scores of people whose houses haven't had power for weeks.

Anyone who needs anything in Iraq goes to the same place: the Americans.… » Full Story on Salon.com