Corruption is the disease that corrodes Iraq's body from the inside. I can say that corruption one of the passages to terrorism it is the mold of terrorism. Any terrorist can join to any ministry if he has amount of money and that what made the ministries moan of corruption aches.
Many parties finance their militias by stealing Iraq's fortunes every where in Iraq. If we want to weaken the terrorism we should destroy its mold the corruption. May be you will say that I'm exaggerate of that, but if you live in Iraq you will see this fact.
Ten days ago we knew from newspapers that the integrity commission uncovered the deal of buying cars for the cabinet that amounted millions of Dollars. After week they deposed the head of the commission and declare to Iraqis that the deposition has no relation with the cars deal (I'm trying believe them). MOI decided to prevent Iraqis from traveling without its knowledge to open a new gate for corruption by bribe the employees there (the citizens will be obliged to pay money in order to hurry their travel).
The evidence burned to hide the corruption proofs like what happened in the …….. ministry before three years and like what happened yesterday when the corrupted burned the building of Central Bank with the office of inspector general (according to one MP's statement).
The corruption series has start but has no end in Iraq.
Yesterday my brother was telling me about a girl live in our neighborhood cash 800$ to employ the jobless people. This girl has very good relations with important officials in the government especially in MOD and MOI. They use this girl as a connected ring to gain bribe.
My brother told me that he doesn't want to study any more "am I study to give money to bad women to get a job?"
Wolf, How will Americans learn about corruption, then, if not for outlets like this blog?
I appreciate the source information.
Posted by: Judith | January 29, 2008 at 07:39 PM
I have been under the impression that the corruption in Iraq has been for the most part stopped. Imagine my suprise to hear from Iraqi individuals that this is not only still going on, but it being used by the very government put in place by the US to stop it. I guess the example of the Bush administration is just too overwhelming not to be emulated by nations entrenched in violence because of intervention by a corrupt,greedy, and false purposed based rational.
Posted by: jack bales | January 29, 2008 at 06:23 PM
Waste of time? In other words, lets forget about Iraq! If it weren't for blogs like this one and the efforts that these bloggers are using, you would eventually be wearing brown shirts and maybe that is what you want to do.
Now- a question for the bloggers-- How about Basra? What is the situation there at the present time?
Posted by: billjpa | January 29, 2008 at 04:35 PM
This blog is a waste of time. Americans are too ignorant about the world to understand corruption.Even the more sophisticated gomers think it is something like paying a cop off for a speeding ticket. Of the billions being blown over there, I wonder what the cut is between the American Corps like Halliburton ( Brown & Root), Princes' Blackwater, etc. and Iraqi big shots?
Posted by: Wolf Vorkian | January 29, 2008 at 01:42 PM