The corruption of the Iraqi politicians
Since the American invasion of Iraq and what followed that
from Iraqi government the corruptions became like a cancer invading the body of
all the system of the Iraqi government. It
spread from the top to the bottom and happened openly to the point that the top
authorities in the government making excuses about corruptions without
investigations. Bribes and similar things
became the norms while large bribes reached into the international level not to
mention the large amount of money spent for the protection and luxury of the
top politicians and government. Commissions
paid for bad standard imports including arms are widespread.
Since 2003 the Iraqi authorities covered too many issues and
scandals related to corruptions including stealing banks, escaping with large
amount of money to outside Iraq, oil smuggling, etc without question.
The corruption which happened including stealing the banks, importing
spoiled equipment, false companies, spending large amount of money for non-existed
issues, top authorities stealing and escaping, and many others; becoming
widespread. The absence of the real
power of the people to observe the government action facilitated the corruptions. This is because the Parliament is nothing but
only serving the interests of its own members and their sectarian and ethnic parties
and not the national issues.
The latest corruption was about hundreds of millions of
dollars that was requested for commission about spoiled arms from Russia to
Iraq! The issue was leaked suddenly
before the final agreement between Iraq and Russia from the Russian side after
two teams competing for the commission!
The second team among the Iraqi negotiators about the deal requested 10%
commission and to their surprise the Russia told them that their fellow team
asked for 5%! It is another scandal
involving millions of dollars of money and treason about the national security
of Iraq. Any other country will immediately open a transparent
investigation and inform its own people about the truth. In any other country this will lead to either
the fall of the government or the tops among the corrupts. In Iraq and until now they want to pass it
unnoticed and how knows they may ask for commission of 20% next time when they
do repeat the same arms deal. This time
they may do it from the USA and they know how to pass it. Who knows may be the USA was a major player
in these issues or at least some of them.
The existed Iraqi politicians both in the opposition and the
government including the members of parliament are all corrupts. The Iraqis should up rise against them and should
have new blood in the government and parliament honest with observatory authorities
among the people for its new building.
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