More MSM Lies About Iraq
Iraq is goin’ great. Yessir:
Corruption is “a virtual pandemic in Iraq,” threatening rebuilding efforts, international aid and citizen confidence needed for a fledgling democracy, a government report said Tuesday.
One Iraqi official has estimated that corruption costs the country $4 billion annually.
Feh! Don’t they realize deficits don’t matter? Just keep cutting taxes and it’ll all work out!
A recent survey indicated a third of Iraqis polled had paid a bribe to get products or services in the past 12 months and that they had a “core mistrust” of the army and police.
Bribes are just one more indication that we’ve delivered on our promise to bring free market principles to the Muslamic Middle East.
The details are cited in the quarterly report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
“Unless reforms are put in place, corruption may jeopardize the political stability of the new government,” said an audit included in the report.
Yikes! It’s a good thing the government is already rock-solid as is, or I might start getting worried!
“Successfully addressing corruption in Iraq is indubitably a multigenerational process, but the severity of the current problem begs for a better-resources effort,” Inspector General Stuart W. Bowen Jr. said in the report, recommending greater spending on anti-corruption programs.
Typical leftist- always trying to “fix” the free market with some gay little “program.”
I’m glad to see Bernie Kerik left his mark on the Baghdad police force.
Don’t these people know that this is just freedom, republican style?
A recent survey indicated a third of Iraqis polled had paid a bribe to get products or services in the past 12 months and that they had a “core mistrust� of the army and police
Not to be obnoxious, but a Middle Eastern society where two-thirds of the population haven’t had to bribe anybody to get products or services in the last 12 months isn’t a success story – it’s a bloody miracle. (Or it doesn’t have any products or services to buy in the first place.)
“Not to be obnoxious, but a Middle Eastern society where two-thirds of the population haven’t had to bribe anybody to get products or services in the last 12 months isn’t a success story – it’s a bloody miracle. ”
I’d like to think the U S of A could do better when rebuilding a nation, though.
Didn’t the Republicans factor bribes into the initial plan?
They usually do…
Or the other two-thirds don’t have any money to bribe with.