We received an official email says that the spokesman of the Iraqi government declared allocating 99,5 million US dollars for the referendum about the Iraqi American Security Agreement.
I know such a referendum is so important because Iraqis should say their opinion about such an important agreement but I believe this referendum can be implemented with the coming election in the 31st of January 2010 by adding a small field at the bottom of the electing paper with two small squares for the two options, yes or no because99,5 million US dollars is a very big sum and I really dont know why such a referendum needs this huge amount of money because it is not an electoral campaign. Also I'm sure the 99,5 $ US can be spent for more important projects like building new hospitals, new schools, water projects or even building some small housing complexes for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who don't have even one room to live in. This money can be used for more useful and important thing than just a referendum.
Spending money in such a way gives only one message. Iraqi is not run until now by professional people which is a very serious mistake. We live in a world that is moved by money. If we keep spending money is such a careless way, we will never join the developed world. We will stay a third world country or even less.
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Posted by: Van Leasing | July 04, 2009 at 09:52 AM
I hope Pres. Obama will understand the true meaning of Faustian pacts practised by his predecessor. It doesn't pay to sacrifice long term clean democracy for the short term interst of having dubious allies. We need the U.S. out of the political process and direct U.N. supervision over census and elections in order to stop the theatrics of unnecessary referendum.
Posted by: Faisal Kadri | June 12, 2009 at 09:04 AM