Iraq's Culture of Corruption Fuels the Insurgents
by Last Night in Little Rock
The "culture of corruption" lives anywhere there is something worth giving or taking, and that includes Iraq. How poor is it when it sits on top of a huge oil reserve? The people maybe; those who control the oil, definitely not.
Our war to bring democracy to Iraq (or was it the War on Terror? I forget. No, maybe it is to control the oil.) is bogged down in part because "troubling pattern of government corruption enabling the flow of oil money and other funds to the insurgency and threatening to undermine Iraq's struggling economy," according to Oil Graft Fuels the Insurgency, Iraq and U.S. Say, in tomorrow's NY Times.
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