Reply #57: I have to disagree, albeit slightly [View All]

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I don't think it's a matter of the Iraqis not wanting foreigners on their soil, it's a matter of what type of presense (and power) these foreigners have that's the problem.

Iraqis are not necessarily against a foreign presense. What they are against is foreign CONTROL-- of their economy, of their resources, of their security forces, of their lives.

The current problems in Iraq are due to the occupational forces, and their continuing control and mismanagement of the country. The provisional authority is more concerned with privatizing the economy than fixing the infrastructure. They care more about opening the economy to predatory capitalists from outside the country than fixing the electric grid, hospitals and water works.

And you're dead right about Chalabi-- he needs to be sent back to Jordan to serve out his sentence for his BCCI shenanegans.