The new Iraq - Democratic Underground

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Wed Aug-13-03 03:30 AM
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The new Iraq

"Under the old regime, alcohol, drugs, pornography and prostitution were state-controlled for the pleasure of a few. But in the post-war vacuum the vice industry has exploded ..."

"There are no sensible statistics in the new Iraq: in the case of crime, either for those who are involved in it or those who suffer by it. What is clear is that it has exploded in a way that has left much of the population more fearful of the present than of the past."

Paul McGeough in "While the cat's away."

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/12/1060588386105.html

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