Don’t Let Iraqis Eat Cake!
The 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.
I also note from this report that the US occupation regime has managed to gradually re-employ or co-opt most of the thugs and heavies from the former regime. Why am I not surprised? And the most ironic? Fox “News”, that dangerous propaganda trash now proved to turn you into a moron on prolonged viewing, has decided to employ the best local talent it can find.
The government minders who spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to well-paid jobs – for the same foreign news organisations they once hounded. The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign journalists, has been employed by Fox News.
Earlier here.