Western vice - Iraq's new tyrant

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/12/1060588394681.html

Iraq's brutal dictatorship has been replaced by a crime wave. Now sex and drugs are freely available on the street, writes Paul McGeough in Baghdad.

[thehonesttruth]

1. free enterprise

ahh, democracy and capitialism, i love that shit, i also love vegas and amsterdam.

[rooboy]

2. Hmmm...

reminds one of a time when some Iranian students took a whole heap of Americans hostage some time back.

But it's ok, they hate Americans because they buy houses.

[Cocoa]

3. at some point we're going to have to face the Shiites

and the desire for a religious government. The mess this article describes is going to make satisfying the religious very difficult.

[Rose Siding]

4. Tell Bremer

They are "relishing their freedom" :eyes:

The US can't fix this alone. We need the int'l community, with more experience, more cultural understanding, more credibility. We should reconstruct the UN before we try to reconstruct Iraq.