Saturday, August 9, 2008

Why are we still paying for Iraq's Reconstruction?

Iraq has being posting record profit from oil revenues, almost 80 billion in the current fiscal year. It is time for the US to scale down its financial help for Reconstruction and military assistance and let the Iraq's government take control of their own future.

However, because of the large exodus of Iraqis' professional (around 3 million left Iraq) and the dismantling of the Baath party by the US in the early stage of the invasion, Iraq has a lack of competent administrators to deal with the budget surplus and make life of Iraqis citizens better.

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