Note the refreshing lack of U.S. fast food franchises on this busy Baghdad street. The Bush administration's well-documented plan is to bomb Iraqi culture into oblivion and rebuild it as a suburban mall, by using Iraqi oil money and divvying up Iraq's state economy among corporate investors. Naomi Klein says in an interview with Lakshimi Chuaudhry referenced on Naomi's website http://www.nologo.org/ "Barely any U.S. taxpayer dollars have gone to Iraq. In fact, Iraqi money has gone to U.S. companies because it's the Iraqi oil money that's bankrolled their reconstruction contracts." |
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Copyright 2005 Leslie Hope
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