Iraq and Moral Corruption -- from The Huffington Post

[Qanisqineq]

This was completely ignored in GD, so maybe someone will be interested here. Rockwell writes about how desperate things are in Iraq, how Bush's war is affecting the region and affecting people here at home. Bush is arrogant enough to believe this war is ending terrorism while the republicans are all standing behind him and cheering him on.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/lew-rockw...

Iraq and moral corruption
Lew Rockwell
10 June 2005

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The Bush administration fanaticized about using shock and awe to "decapitate" the Iraqi regime, and then -- King Midas-like -- touching the country to make it prosperous, civil, and—most important for the Bush administration—compliant. The Iraqi government fell quickly, but 27 months later, a complicated and bloody chaos reigns.

What we have in Iraq today is the very definition of barbarism: martial law, puppet government, civil war, daily bloodshed, spreading poverty and disease, and no end in sight.

Economic conditions are miserable. The numbers showing GPD growth are a hoax, propped up by reconstruction aid that lands in the pockets of American contractors. Despite the promise of privatization, the economy remains controlled and largely nationalized, and the legal regime is arbitrary and changing. This environment attracts no productive capital investment. A business that moves to Iraq today is on the take, looking for loot. Meanwhile, the country’s oil exports are spotty and unpredictable due to bad management and unrelenting sabotage.

The war is sowing and reaping hatred throughout the region, drawing recruits into terrorist armies, and expanding anti-Americanism. Whatever regime in Iraq earns the imprimatur of the US will be ipso facto loathed by the Iraqi resistance. Whatever regime is supported by the Sunnis will be opposed by the Shiites and vice versa, with further complications added by the Kurds and gradations among religious and ethnic attachments that Americans can’t hope to understand.

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