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Thursday, October 09, 2003

Everywhere and Nowhere, Saddam Retains His Grip on Baghdad's Imagination

[T]he occupation authority is making preparations to dismantle the food distribution system which gave free rations of flour, rice, cooking oil and other staples to every Iraqi.

Described by the UN as the world's most efficient food network, the system still keeps Iraqis from going hungry. But the US civilian administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer, views it as a dangerous socialist anachronism. The coalition provisional authority (CPA) is planning to abolish it in January, despite warnings from its own technical experts that this could lead to hunger and riots.

Let the Iraqi welfare queens get a job, the bums.

Jack Clark 10:14 PM [+]   
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