Nine Portraits Of Iraq Without America

Halima Daham's husband died this March, after suffering almost eight years of health complications after losing his legs to U.S. tank fire in 2004. Now Daham and her six children live largely on charity from relatives.
In dozens of interviews with The Washington Post this summer, many Iraqis said their lives had been safer and more prosperous under Saddam Hussein.
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"They are also poor people, but they help me when they can," she said, sitting in her tiny home in Sadr City, a vast slum on Baghdad's eastern fringe.
Family charity is about all the poor in Iraq can count on these days.
Daham said she is hoping that her 18-year-old son, Alaa, will find work so he can support the family, "but everywhere they are asking for bribes and I don't have any money."