So the CIA is funding and training an army of opposition soldiers made up of anyone it could find, whilst also funding and legitimising an opposition political movement which includes many people heavily implicated in atrocities which they are using to justify their war.
And then Iraq will be controlled through its debts. In terms of its debt to export ratio, Iraq is the most indebted country in the world. Its external debt of $130 billion is rising all the time through compound interest and cannot be repaid with Oil For Food money. The U.N. has already awarded $36 billion in compensation claims against Iraq for the invasion of Kuwait and is considering a further $127 billion. Iraq's exports in the six and a half years of the Oil For Food programme have been $51 billion.
Structural adjustment policies are enforced on heavily indebted countries so that their resources are taken over by multinational companies and the wealth is taken out of the country, and public services are privatised, so the burden of paying for water, health care, education and so on is shifted to the population as individuals, rather than public funds. Financially, perhaps in many ways, the Iraqi people will be even worse off than they are now.
And then Iraq will be controlled through its debts. In terms of its debt to export ratio, Iraq is the most indebted country in the world. Its external debt of $130 billion is rising all the time through compound interest and cannot be repaid with Oil For Food money. The U.N. has already awarded $36 billion in compensation claims against Iraq for the invasion of Kuwait and is considering a further $127 billion. Iraq's exports in the six and a half years of the Oil For Food programme have been $51 billion.
Structural adjustment policies are enforced on heavily indebted countries so that their resources are taken over by multinational companies and the wealth is taken out of the country, and public services are privatised, so the burden of paying for water, health care, education and so on is shifted to the population as individuals, rather than public funds. Financially, perhaps in many ways, the Iraqi people will be even worse off than they are now.