Bush Brings Privatization Democracy to Iraq

The Iraqi government announcement that monthly food rations will be cut by half has left many Iraqis asking how they can survive.

Well, they can join the insurgency and kill some Americans. Good living in that. In fact, due to republikkkan philosophy and management, one of the best livings to be had in Iraq is as an insurgent. Other jobs are in the hands of foreign nationals in the guise of CONTRACTORS.

The government also wants to reduce the number of people depending on the rationing system by five million by June.

Iraq's food rations system was introduced by the Saddam Hussein government in 1991 in response to the UN economic sanctions. Families were allotted basic foodstuffs monthly because the Iraqi Dinar and the economy collapsed.

Well no wonder the right wanted to depose the bastard after they made and armed him. He was clearly a communist.

The sanctions, imposed after Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait, were described as "genocidal" by Denis Halliday, then UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq. Halliday quit his post in protest against the U.S.-backed sanctions.

A Bush was int he white house. They are pure blooded Nazis. Genocide is what I always expect from Nazis.

The sanctions killed half a million Iraqi children, and as many adults, according to the UN. They brought malnutrition, disease, and lack of medicines. Iraqis became nearly completely reliant on food rations for survival. The programme has continued into the U.S.-led occupation.

Why do they hate us?

But now the U.S.-backed Iraqi government has announced it will halve the essential items in the ration because of "insufficient funds and spiralling inflation."

Plenty of funds for Blackwater, DynCorp, Halliburton etc. Where is that oil money? How about that missing 9 billion?

The cuts, which are to be introduced in the beginning of 2008, have drawn widespread criticism. The Iraqi government is unable to supply the rations with several billion dollars at its disposal, whereas Saddam Hussein was able to maintain the programme with less than a billion dollars.

Interesting. Apparently Saddam was simply a better manager than the fascists and their Iraqi puppet government.

"In 2007, we asked for 3.2 billion dollars for rationing basic foodstuffs," Mohammed Hanoun, Iraq's chief of staff for the ministry of trade told al-Jazeera. "But since the prices of imported foodstuff doubled in the past year, we requested 7.2 billion dollars for this year. That request was denied."

And why import food? Because Monsanto signed a contract or some bullshit like that? Yes, of course, Globalization. Globalization is a desperately bad and destructive thing that benefits only a handful of people

The trade ministry is now preparing to slash the list of subsidised items by half to five basic food items, "namely flour, sugar, rice, oil, and infant milk," Hanoun said.

The imminent move will affect nearly 10 million people who depend on the rationing system. But it has already caused outrage in Baquba, 40 km northeast of Baghdad.

How nice. a million dead Iraqi's. $ million displaced Iraqis. Who knows how many maimed and traumatized Iraqis, but the Bush Reich and their puppet government want to guarantee a little starvation into the ugly mix.