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Quote by: rmnunez  that the US is fighting to bring democracy, free-trade and progress and that it is confronted by intolerant regressive religious fundamentalists. |
It's the handling that disturbs me. What I can't understand is why if Iraq was an oil rich country, why the free trade hasn't brought new money previously tide up by Saddam.
Errr... because the Americans are taking it? I have no proof, but I reckon that's why. Why else would such an oil rich country be so poor.
Surely if there was genuine concern for the Iraqi welfare then there would have been a way of setting oil companies so that the Iraqis benefitted. Oil is gold, look at the Saudi's, Kuwaitis, and the Russian Oil Giants. Okay not all the Saudis etc are rich, but there is a lot of wealth there. There seems to be no wealth in Iraq.
Democracy is also not perfect in any country, especially not the US and UK, so we should not export faulty goods.