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I never thought this would happen (sarcasm)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/dailybriefing/story/0,12965,924728,00.html
The economic conquest has begun, US firm given contract to run Iraqi port.
They move quickly don't they!
The economic conquest has begun, US firm given contract to run Iraqi port.
They move quickly don't they!
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So far we've heard American companies have been awarded the bulk of contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq. Best of all, most of it will have to be paid not by those who bombed the country but by Iraq itself.
I'm sure Cheney being ex-director of at least one of the companies chosen has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the awarding of the contract to the said company.
What struck me with the embedded reporters is that the country is so poor...except for King Saddam. Why aren't liberals angry about Saddam's torture and the country's that enabled him?
1 more thing. all the firms being selected have to go through a security clearance.
Like Bin Laden said to the Iraqi people: just hit America hard and they will run. They can't stand to see a lot of casualties.
I appreciate where you and toadborg are coming from.
There seems to be a common belief that Iraq is a very unequal society (which it is) and that this is a bad thing.
Well I have some bad news. The post-Saddam iraq is likely to be more unequal than it is now. The US (and largely UK) belief is in free-market capitalism that inevitably leads to huge inequalities. The Washington consensus will be enforced, the public utilities will be privatised and the Iraqi govt will bow to the whim of the MNC's just like every other developing nation.
The profits of Iraqi goods will flow to the west as will the raw materials which we will sell back at a huge mark-up.
There will be poverty and starvation and people will be poor not becasue of their tyrannical leader but because of the forces of global capitalism..........
How any warmongers can think that this is anything less than a full blown conquest (liberation my *bleep"!) only demonstrates that they must not have much of a grasp on reality.
They went to little Baghdad in Deerborne Michigan. The news went to a mosque and asked the men what they thought of Saddam and the war. They asked for a show of hands as to who thinks it would be good if he were gone. Instead of raising their hands, many raised their shirts to show the scars from where they were tortured by Saddam's thugs. They weren't really scars. They looked like dimples where someone had carved out skin and flesh and muscle. Others yelled out and grown men started to cry about the wives, children and friends he killed.
The enablers kept Saddam in power for 12 more years. They were all "liberals."
I'm against war too though...but not at any cost.
More insults. :rolleyes:
Bush is duking it out with them now. Would you like me to try to find the link about the fight. It basically said that Bush & Co. told the exiles that they do not have he right to create a government. The new government will be comprised of all of the ethnic groups in Iraq.