Raw Story leaks NYTimes: oil profits pay to keep the Iraq insurgency going strong
Ever since the US occupation of Iraq began in the summer of 2003, I’ve said that the CPA was neglecting the basic economic needs of Iraqi men, and that would continue to be a major source of opposing firepower. Moqtada al-Sadr recognized that early and by providing cash and assistance, mobilized the most effective resistance force, before ultimately calling a ceasefire. But the economics still keep fueling the opposition.
This is what the failure of the Iraq government has done: it can’t even control the profits of its oil supply.
Incompetence or deliberate?
Whichever. Our troops keep dying and our treasury’s being drained because Iraq’s government simply doesn’t care. That’s a hell of an important point that can’t be overstated. And they personally profit as long as they can stretch out our government’s willingness to let that rotten status quo prevail.
Maybe our government doesn’t really care, either.
