Not all of Saddam's laws bad, the 'new' Iraq kept the one banning labor unions

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Iraq's oil minister said Iraq's oil unions are not legitimate and have no more standing in the debate over the oil law than an ordinary citizen.

"There are no legal unions in Iraq," Hussein al-Shahristani said Wednesday in response to a question about various factions' positions on the controversial oil law. "Those people who call themselves representatives of the oil workers have not been elected to the position."

Shahristani spoke to UPI by phone from Baghdad.

The lone remaining law from the Saddam Hussein regime kept by U.S. occupying powers and the successive Iraqi government is the one that bans worker organizing in the public sector.

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3726/Shahrastani_No_Legal_Oil_Unions_in_Iraq

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1. Amazing, isn't it?

But we gave them freedom.:sarcasm:

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2. Well, of course

Bremer created the perfect neocon economic system out of Iraq. It is a shinning example of neocon economic policy in action, except for those darn citizens. Instead of accepting the neocon two tier society of "have mores" and wretched poor, they took up bombs and guns and keep blowing things up. Iraq citizens should be glad of the economic prosperity Paul Bremer brought to them. He brought this:

"Local officials and NGOs put the unemployment rate countrywide to be more than 60 percent. In particularly troubled areas such as Anbar Governorate, this rate could be much higher.

Compounding the unemployment problem is the fact that the price of basic necessities in Iraq has skyrocketed over the past year. A report by NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI) suggests a 70 percent rate of inflation from July 2005 to July 2006."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/c14c2cc0f6c99e87f284df922a039cad.htm

"basic services — electricity, water, education — have worsened since the U.S.-led invasion."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/c14c2cc0f6c99e87f284df922a039cad.htm

Iraq citizens should be quiet and just take it like American citizens do.