Monday, July 18, 2005

Priorities

What Iraqis are concerned with:
Some senior elected officials and civic and religious leaders spoke out on Sunday, condemning the attack, one of a wave of suicide bombings that has shaken the greater Baghdad area in the past eight days. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most revered Shiite cleric in Iraq, asked the government "to defend this country against the mass annihilation," according to Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, who led a delegation that visited the ayatollah on Sunday.

What the puppet regime is focusing on:
Iraq wants to launch a privatization program that would end state monopolies over industry, an Iraqi official said Sunday on the eve of an international meeting to assess reconstruction activities.

Call it a hunch, but might the government be seen as slightly more legitimate (and the insurgency seen as less so) if the cash grabs were a bit less blatant?

(Via Daily Kos and the Suburban Guerrilla.)

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