Article: Unfinished business a full-time job in Iraq.

Byline: Evan Osnos

HUSSEINIYA, Iraq _ Past the school he worked to refurbish, through the market he helped revive, Sgt. Tony Breaux turns his Humvee off the main road and sinks knee-deep into a sickly reminder of all that he cannot accomplish.

Rivers of reeking sewage run through this Shiite slum where Saddam Hussein never installed water or sewer lines. Barefoot children play on slivers of dry land.

"We'll go out and spend $10,000, and it barely makes a dent. You've still got to raise the road, build an underground sewer ... ," Breaux said, his words trailing off. "I see these kids and I can't look them in the eye."

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