The Los Angeles Times reports U.S. drops Baghdad electricity reports. "The State Department, which prepares a weekly 'status report' for Congress on conditions in Iraq, stopped estimating in May how many hours of electricity Baghdad residents typically receive each day. Instead, the department now reports on the electricity generated nationwide, a measurement that does not indicate how much power Iraqis in Baghdad or elsewhere actually receive."
Baghdad still only gets 1 or 2 hours of electricity a day, it just now we won't hear so much about it. That's progress, right? The state department says they're not trying to hide anything, just trying to find a more accurate metric. There's debate on that but one thing is clear, when you change metrics, you lose the ability to compare things to the past.
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