By Jesse Russell

Aaron Glantz, a reporter for Pacifica Radio and contributor to the Workers Independent News, spent parts of 2003 and 2004 covering the situation in Iraq outside of the US protected Green Zone where many reporters file stories from. Glantz has released a book called "How America Lost Iraq" it examines the situation on the ground and the life for the average Iraqi. Glantz sat down with WIN Monday to talk about his book. He says the unemployment rate is now at 70 percent and the while Iraqi's still wait for their electricity grid to be replaced, they are now watching as the food ration system they depend on is taken away.

[Glantz]: Now they are phasing it down. People were not eating like Kings under this ration system. We're talking about rice, lentils, tomatoes, tea -basics. Now the beans are gone. The lentils are gone. Now we're looking at tea and rice. This withering away will cause a lot more malnutrition for Iraqis and of course working people.