h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think the people who should rebuild Iraq--either financial or preferably physically (whilst being whipped)--the people who destroyed it:

Saddam Hussein and his Baathist tyrannical dictatorship, who ran Iraq with an iron fist for decades, and tortured and murdered political opponents and persecuted religious and ethnic groups, and led their country into 2 disastrous aggressive wars (the Iran-Iraq War and the 1st Persian Gulf War with Kuwait and an Arab-Western Coalition).

US Pres. George W. Bush and his administration for starting the 2003 2nd Gulf War by invading Iraq on a flismy pretext, carpet bombing the country and using alpha-emmitting depleted uranium weapons against it.

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government, G.W. Bush's co-conspirator, who also has command responsibility over almost weekly bombings of Iraq by UK/US air forces and was one of the principle backers of the devastating UN sanctions against Iraq.

Former US Pres. George H.W. Bush and his administration, who carpet bombed Iraq in 1991, used depleted uranium weapon and unnescessarily bombed Iraqi troops who had left Kuwait on the infamous Highway of Death.

Former UK Prime Minister John Major and his government, G.H.W. Bush's co-conspirator

Former US Pres. Bill Clinton, who almost weekly bombed Iraq during the 1990s and was one of the principle backers of the devastating UN sanctions against Iraq.

Does this mean that you're not interested in buying a slightly used country?

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=445744

America puts Iraq up for sale

By Philip Thornton in Dubai and Andrew Gumbel
22 September 2003

"Iraq was in effect put up for sale yesterday when the American-appointed administration announced it was opening up all sectors of the economy to foreign investors in a desperate attempt to deliver much-needed reconstruction against a daily backdrop of kidnappings, looting and violent death."

"In an unexpected move unveiled at the meeting in Dubai of the Group of Seven rich nations, the Iraqi Governing Council announced sweeping reforms to allow total foreign ownership without the need for prior approval."

more at other end of link

No, i don't want it privatised. I meant i want all those people to get life imprisonment with hard labour as a punishment for their crimes, and the hard labour should be rebuilding Iraq (i.e. they pay for what the've done, not the Iraqis themselves in oil, as the US and UK seem to be advocating).

So that's the trick. Promise the Iraqs self government but don't give them anything to govern.

Well, the way I see it is this...

The plan is to let the Iraqi people choose a leader from amongst a few people that Dubya has deemed "acceptable," thereby creating the illusion of democracy. It would be kind of like an American deciding whether to vote for a Republicrat or a Democrian. Then Dubya can point out the success of his plan to inflict... I mean indroduce... his variety of democracy to Iraq and allow an actual Iraqi to govern the people while he, Dubya, governs the oil and economy.

0

That is a plan so cunning, it was professor of cunning at Oxbridge University!
I am shocked but not surprised at the apathy of the media here in NZ who just about it, and say well, what can you do, right of conquest and all that - then, there's the fact that *we* here in NZ were privatised to within a millimetre of our miserable lives from 1984-96. But - we did it to ourselves! (NZers, that is.)
Then, I heard on the BBC WS, we exported the poison dwarf, Ruth Richardson,to roger the UK Health system. ! If only there was something I could do