Friday, August 13, 2010

Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse?

Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse?
by Judith Miller
The Wall Street Journal
August 9, 2010

BAGHDAD — Since America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has had three free-wheeling, relatively fraud-free national elections. Its military has been reconstituted, its soldiers and some of its police retrained. The infrastructure has been partially rebuilt. Iraq, with its 30 million people and the world's third-largest oil reserves, could one day be fabulously rich.

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Have a nice weekend.

Erik Plesset

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