Iraq's treasury stolen and nobody cares!?

[Amalith]

http://i.abcnews.com/International/wireStory?id=2599528
I find it funny that this is online a footnote. $800 million in corrupt deals is pretty extreme to begin with, the fact that it was only a small "scrolling text" kind of news that ranks low in importance is even more ridiculous.

I guess this shows the "integrity" of their government.

[sephodwyrm]

Well, a lot of the Iraqi cabinet don't have their interest in rebuilding Iraq.

Kinda like the KMT top brass during the civil war...Of course, the Communists were portrayed as terrorists, and the terrorists won...

[k995]

http://i.abcnews.com/International/wireStory?id=2599528
I find it funny that this is online a footnote. $800 million in corrupt deals is pretty extreme to begin with, the fact that it was only a small "scrolling text" kind of news that ranks low in importance is even more ridiculous.

I guess this shows the "integrity" of their government.

And it just the top of the iceberg, in total 7 billion$ of expenses are being investigated.

[Erik]

Welcome to the great democracy of Iraq.

[Aristophanes]

Which just goes to show that elections are only a small part of good government.

[Your Lame Sister]

Money is Iraq's last problem.

[Princeps]

Money is Iraq's last problem.

Money is never the last problem.

And most certainly not now. Iraq needs stable finances if anything.

[Your Lame Sister]

Iraq needs stability, soldiers, indepdence, democracy, and only then money. once iraq will stabilise it will have money anyway, thanks to a little thing called oil.

[Princeps]

Iraq needs stability, soldiers, indepdence, democracy,

Indeed. All this needs money. Lots of money.

[Amalith]

Iraq needs stability, soldiers, indepdence, democracy, and only then money. once iraq will stabilise it will have money anyway, thanks to a little thing called oil.

umm sorry but the fact that people can get away with this is BAD.... they need stability and integrity FIRST which is something that other failed countries have never achieved and thats why they failed. If they can't get leaders with integrity then they will not be successful.

Look at vietnam... the south was HIGHLY corrupt and that was one of the propoganda points of the opposition that was rather successful.

[Zenith Darksea]

No, money is the first thing on the road to stability. Once you have money, you can start paying the workers. When you can pay the workers, then they will be able to buy nice things to keep themselves distracted. As it is, the only people who seem to be paying their workers are the militias - that's why so many people are joining them, so that they can get their hands on those nice Iranian Dollars.

[Your Lame Sister]

money means nothing when u cant give it to the workets because it will get stolen by bandits.
if iraq will have stbility, it will have money. not the other way around.

[Brian1980]

You know if they had setup a communist regime like they had in the USSR Iraq wouldn’t have half the problems they are having at the moment. For a start as true communists we would have stomped all over religious beliefs and made everyone equally poor. If you don’t like it we would have saved time and just shot you right there and then, why waste time listing to people boring arguments and grievances.

As for the insurgents all you have to do is round up people in the know vicinities of known insurgents hideouts and send all of them to work in East Russia. After some state sponsored brainwashing and propaganda, it would time for the Iraqi people to erect statues of true Communist heroes such as Lenin and Stalin in place of those Saddam statues.

So the lessons the rest of world could learn in order to successfully take over a nation state.
- Crush Freedom of speech
- Ban religion
- Depression inspiring sites made of concrete
- Lots of statues
- Communists monopoly on power
- Kill anyone who says communists is violent (they probably deserve it anyway)

[Silver Guard]

Well its nice to know some of us support Genocide and wanton slaughter to support a minority ideology which so far has only produced war crimes and disasters. Oh and, just to top it off, wipe out human rights while your at it.

As I finished that I dearly hope you are using sarcasm to point out the flaws in then communist ideology

[Your Lame Sister]

indirectly, yes...

[Princeps]

indirectly, yes...

No, quite directly.

[Sidmen]

No, it just needs state-controled death squads to stop corruption in its tracks (some ultranationalists would work) Just kill 3 or 4 top leaders for corruption (real or imagionary) and the threat of geting shot for stealing will force politians to not steal so much.

Or you can hire an american firm to invest in your country and handle all the messy details like finances. Because we all know how well government dollars are handled vs. corprate dollars (the US budget has a hole of 30-50 billion a year that nobody knows where its going, while microsoft workers have to file mile-long request forms for a $100 printer

[Tiwaz]

No, it just needs state-controled death squads to stop corruption in its tracks (some ultranationalists would work) Just kill 3 or 4 top leaders for corruption (real or imagionary) and the threat of geting shot for stealing will force politians to not steal so much.

Or you can hire an american firm to invest in your country and handle all the messy details like finances. Because we all know how well government dollars are handled vs. corprate dollars (the US budget has a hole of 30-50 billion a year that nobody knows where its going, while microsoft workers have to file mile-long request forms for a $100 printer

You forget that it is these leaders who would lead the "deathsquads" who are stealing.
If again USA interfered and run it's own deathsquads it would only help prove further how undemocratic Iraq is and how powerless and useless their leaders are.

As for hiring american firm. Again same problem, it would only show impotence of Iraqi leaders to hire yet another US based corporation to make profit. (don't forget that corporations only do things for profit, not to help iraqis) And most likely would not solve any corruption.
And not only that, but they would be handing over their imaginary power over Iraq to americans officially as well as in practice.

Welcome to world class mess with only bad options available.

[Your Lame Sister]

LOL, can't a man say something without dozens of politicaly-correct-fantics chasing him?

[Tiwaz]

There should always be a critic around to shoot down any foolish or unrealistic idea.

If there isn't one or they are not listened bad things happen. Like invading country in Middle East without any realistic plan on how to proceed with the country after invasion.