Job creation tops US diplomat's Iraq agenda (Insurgents need jobs!)

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Job creation tops US diplomat's Iraq agenda
By Steve Negus,Iraq Correspondent

Published: April 29 2006 03:00 | Last updated: April 29 2006 03:00

With the need to disarm militias becoming a main priority in stabilising Iraq, the US ambassador to the country yesterday revealed plans to try to mobilise international donors to fund schemes to stand down armed groups and find their members jobs. Among the donors that would be urged to help are some of Iraq's neighbours.

"Discussions are going on about the possibility of some sort of international meeting {before the end of the year} that could discuss {a compact in which} the Iraqi government commits itself to certain goals, and the international community led by the states of the region and others commit themselves to support" those goals, Zalmay Khalilzad told the FT.

"One of the areas where there will be a need for help from the international community will be the reintegration of people who are in militias and other unauthorised military formations" into other occupations, Mr Khalilzad said, speaking from his residence in Baghdad's fortified green zone.

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US military officers have suggested job creation as a response both to the militia problem and to the insurgency, giving the country's millions of unemployed young men an alternative way to earn their living.

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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7dd8859e-d71d-11da-b64c-0000779e2340.html

[hwmnbn]

1. Maybe they can take over ......

Rummy and Condi's security detail during their next visit. Wouldn't that be a special "surprise"! :patriot:

[Monk06]

2. They should go with a proven strategy...............

Reduce taxes to rich Iraqis and then wait for the trickle
down effect. And make those tax breaks permanent dag nabbit.

[Kagemusha]

3. Hint: Armed groups stand up and find their members jobs.

When contracts go out, militia-related firms get the deals.

Or else.

It's a very effective militia job creation program, and has been reported on in the mainstream media recently.

[Bozita]

4. Send that ambassador back home. We need jobs here too!

I think the US could use a foreign policy toward its own unemployed.

[Hekate]

5. This is a job for Obvious-Man! First thing Bush did was disemploy Iraqis

Remember how the neocon plan was for sending the whole Iraqi Army home? No jobs, no income, families to feed...

And then that other great plan hatched by the neocons -- no-bid contracts for Halliburton and privatization of essential functions -- all of which involved hiring non-Iraqis to finish wrecking um I mean rebuilding Iraq.

And NOW they think gainfully employing Iraqis would be a good idea?

:argh:

Hekate

[Robbien]

6. We traffik in slave labor from poor countries and refuse to hire Iraqis

Now three years later when Iraqis are mad as hell, we will begin to think about maybe perhaps giving them a job.

[kurth]

7. Don't forget free health care

Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is doing a heckuva job. How thick is his bulletproof vest anyway?

[oscar111]

8. JOBS FOR ALL website, advised by Galbraith, Clinton SoLabor Reich, 2 Nobel

laureates, the Archbishop of Milwaukee...

has plenty of ways to do it.

see my sig for link.

New WPA, co-ops, share the work.

Why, we could use that here LOL... we have a Job Shortage of fourteen million.