Word: iraqisã
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...efforts at economic recovery have fared no better than attempts at security: the Iraqi economy has declined 22 percent this year. The Labor Ministry estimates that 12 million Iraqis??fully 70 percentof the country’s workers—are unemployed. Meanwhile, the U.S. and other foreign corporations and contractors have been importing cheap labor from Southeast Asia to work on the rebuilding of Iraq, since Iraqi workers “are more vulnerable to bad guy influence,” as The Financial Times detailed last Tuesday...
...Iraq for their own gain. The U.S. has already spent $80 billion on the war and Congress just approved another approximately $87 billion. And I can hazard a guess that Bush might have a harder time convincing the nine million unemployed Americans—or 12 million unemployed Iraqis??that those billions have been well-spent...
...When we go to Iraq,” Cornell said, “we’re not just tourists, popping in and out of [Iraqis??] lives. When you make a friend it’s a commitment...
...that President Bush wants to build “an empire at gunpoint” is fundamentally misguided. In Iraq, U.S. occupying forces will only stay temporarily, until law and order is restored, the necessary humanitarian and reconstruction aid arrives and a responsible, free government—run by Iraqis??can take over. After that, they will gradually leave...