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Iraqi official: ‘Corruption has crippled Iraq’ (Final media push before report)
msnbc ^ | 9/8/2007 | Lisa Myers and Aram Roston

Posted on 09/08/2007 10:15:06 AM PDT by tobyhill

U.S. officials say the battle to clean up Iraq's government has suffered a "serious blow" with the resignation of the nation's top corruption fighter. The former watchdog, Judge Radhi Al Radhi, tells NBC News that Iraq's current government, headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, is riddled with so much corruption that the U.S. must stop supporting it. Rahdi is now in the United States, and his departure from the Iraqi government comes just as the U.S. prepares for a key report from Gen. David Petraeus about the military "surge" in Iraq.

Until last week, Rahdi headed the Iraqi government department responsible for rooting out graft and fraud in Iraq's young government. It is called the Commission on Public Integrity, or CPI. It refers its investigations into corrupt officials to Iraqi courts for prosecution.

But Rahdi recently resigned, and he says that was because of numerous threats on his life by corrupt Iraqi officials. "They have militias," he says, "and they attacked my neighborhood with missiles and these missiles fell very close to my house." If he returns to Iraq under current circumstances he believes he'll be killed.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqigovernment; petraeusreport; progress; surge
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"[There's] no water, no electricity, no gas, no oil."

Lie, lies, lies and more lies!!!

1 posted on 09/08/2007 10:15:09 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

How much did George Soros pay him for this?


2 posted on 09/08/2007 10:16:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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To: tobyhill

Corruption has crippled our gummit, so what. Take a look at Corrupt Harry, Do Nothing Nancy, Box-a-Rox and the clintons if you want to see some Graft.

Pray for W and Our Troops


3 posted on 09/08/2007 10:17:42 AM PDT by bray (Member of the FR President Bush underground fighting FR BDS)
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To: tobyhill
Interesting. He is supposedly is in “desperate danger” at home but just manages to have the political pull, and financial resources to quit his job and show up in the USA in less then a week.
4 posted on 09/08/2007 10:18:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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To: MNJohnnie

The Sunday talk shows will be full of the exaggerated crap and of course funded by the Code Pinks.


5 posted on 09/08/2007 10:18:43 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: MNJohnnie

Someones funding the idiot.


6 posted on 09/08/2007 10:20:08 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: tobyhill

Gee...
Corruption in an Arab-run government.
Who’d a thunk it.

Remember folks, we are dealing with a society in which NOT offering a bribe to an official (it’s called “Baksheesh”) you want to do business with, even if not accepted, is considered insulting...


7 posted on 09/08/2007 10:21:39 AM PDT by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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‘Corruption has crippled Iraq’

Lol! You could say the same when Saddam was in power.

8 posted on 09/08/2007 10:21:54 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: tobyhill
Iraq's current government, headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, is riddled with so much corruption that the U.S. must stop supporting it.
That is democracy, pal!
Our government is riddled with just as much corruption, and yet half the people still support the Democrats.

 
9 posted on 09/08/2007 10:22:17 AM PDT by counterpunch ("The Democrats are the party of slavery." - Cindy Sheehan)
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“I don’t even want to tell you about the Ministry of Trade, where they’re giving food to people that is not edible for any human being.”

Sorry it’s not Filet Mignon.

10 posted on 09/08/2007 10:26:21 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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How much did George Soros pay him for this?

No joke. I'm sure this will be parroted every hour on radio and television news, as well discussed in that "oh so serious" tone used by NPR.

11 posted on 09/08/2007 10:41:54 AM PDT by SIDENET (Inventor of the 12-hour "power nap".)
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To: bray

Corruption in Iraq? They must have Chinese citizens bundling money to politicians. Perhaps they have Mexican trucks pouring over the border, carrying who knows what, and probably carrying tons and tons of contaminated Chinese products.


12 posted on 09/08/2007 10:44:20 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Hey - how can you even say that? Saddam was a pure as the wind driven snow!


13 posted on 09/08/2007 10:45:26 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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"Corruption has crippled Iraq..."

This proves our efforts in Iraq are a raging success: they're just like us now!

14 posted on 09/08/2007 10:52:56 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: tobyhill
Pulling American forces out due to corruption isn’t going to help. The Iraqi people are more than fed up with corruption in their current government and hopefully they will take care of the problem during the next elections. Most of the lack of political process isn’t due to sectarian violence as the left would have you think but instead it is due to greedy politicians. They have their own John Murtha’s over there.
15 posted on 09/08/2007 10:56:37 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Enterprise

That’s right, all they did under Saddamn was fly kites and sing Koombaya. Michael Mooreon said so.

PRay for W and Our Troops


16 posted on 09/08/2007 10:58:57 AM PDT by bray (Member of the FR President Bush underground fighting FR BDS)
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To: tobyhill

I live here in Jersey. What’s this guys problem?


17 posted on 09/08/2007 11:27:01 AM PDT by ditto h
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To: tobyhill; All

The “officials” of the Iraqi government are not the primary focus of our long-term support for Democracy in Iraq - they are transient historical figures.

The focus of our long-term support is the democratic institutions of Iraq and the continued democratic process for altering the course of those institutions - not any particular present or future leaders.

As long as that is what we secure for the Iraqi people, they will have the ability to get rid of corrupt leaders.

It is not up to the U.S. media, or congress to throw the Iraqi people overboard every time we are unhappy with their elected leaders.

If that was legitimate to the basis of our “support” in Iraq, then in similar circumstances - Japan, Germany, South Korea, our assistance to their infant democracies would not have lasted 24 months.

We have given the Iraqi people the means, now we are securing that means. The political clean-up is their job, not ours.


18 posted on 09/08/2007 12:05:05 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: tobyhill

Oh, and he just happens to resign and show up in the USA just in time for this big week of the Petraeus testimony and political struggle over future US policy and funding.

Mere coincidence!! Yeah, right. I’d bet anything that Soros and/or similar ‘Rats are behind this. Who’s funding him? Follow the money!


19 posted on 09/08/2007 1:05:58 PM PDT by Enchante (Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
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To: Enchante

You are so incredibly wrong about this. Trust me. Radhi’s one of the good (less bad) guys.


20 posted on 09/08/2007 3:22:39 PM PDT by BroncosFan ("Now we grieve, 'cause now it's gone / But things were good when we were young.")
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