IRAQ: WHERE PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD THEIR COUNTRY
by Dahr Jamail and Harb Al-Mukhtar, Inter Press Service
"BAGHDAD, Dec 1 (IPS) - Despite the allocation of billions of dollars of U.S. government money for "reconstruction", Iraqis are struggling to exist amidst soaring prices, unemployment, a devastated infrastructure, and cuts in services....
Hope also appears to be in short supply....
Many analysts have blamed the U.S. government squarely for this situation....
Allegations of fraud and theft have plagued the occupiers of Iraq from the beginning. Auditors with the U.S. government are reported to have found serious problems....
Iraq has oil and dollar wealth, but the people do not see it." Link to Article
PHOTO: An Iraqi girl looks away while US soldiers from 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment give her neighbors balls and candies, during a routine patrol at a predominantly Sunni Al-Dura neighborhood, southwest of Baghdad. Rebels attacked a US-Iraqi base in the restive western city of Ramadi, hours after the US president outlined his strategy for winning the war in Iraq. (AFP/Mauricio Lima)
No comments:
Post a Comment