How long before the riots ?

[BonjourUSA]

Today, 70% of the Iraqi are on unemployement. I guess this situation can't continue a very long time yet.

[Alex146]

1. 70%, wow I didn't know it was that bad.

Is there some kind of wellfare?

[Unforgiven]

2. Jeeeeeeze!

Before I read the post, I thought you meant this country!

[Kanary]

4. Me, too.... riots here... yup, could/should happen

But, probably won't.

[burrowowl]

18. Me too!

I still keep wondering when there will be riots in the U$A.

[wanderingbear]

3. There use to that..

Most of them have lived that way all their lives..

[sistersofmercy]

6. Huh?

[wanderingbear]

7. Just saying their not likely to riot..

Its nothing new to them..

[sistersofmercy]

14. That assumption is flawed

It is new to them because adding to the unemployment figure are milliions of government employees who lost their jobs at the beginning of the war. The entire military, police, clerks you name it, anyone associated with the government lost their job, as did most women. There have been rallies but no riots,well that's no entirely true but no major rioting
In addition, the bombing job our government did has left others without jobs. One article I read was about the date industry in the south, basically read that the date industry had been almost wiped out by GWI and had finally started producing again in the last few years only to be bombed to smithereens again this time. Apparently, the Southern Iraq dates are highly sought after in the ME. But this leaves farmers and workers without a crop and a job to do.

[LeahMira]

8. Nope.

Most of them have lived that way all their lives..

Just as in the U.S. today, only those in the highest eschelons of the Iraqi government have never worked a day in their lives.

[JanMichael]

9. I don't think so.

They created an almost self sufficient economy due to the sanctions.

Perhaps someone with better knowledge of pre-Invasion Iraq could help us with this question?

[punpirate]

10. Quite the contrary....

Iraq was a secular, socialized country where employment was far better than it is now. Education was important (Iraq ranked just behind the Palestinians for percentage of the population with PhDs among the Arab nations). Those without a lot of education were employed in the many state-run industries which have been closed since the invasion.

This sort of situation won't be tolerated for a lot longer--what is now was not what it was before. The guy working in a state-run plant didn't care if it was state-run--it was work. Those opportunities disappeared at the beginning of hostilities and have not been replaced.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Your question is interesting

I am interested in what people in France think about this question. What can you say about this?

[carpetbagger]

11. There are riots.

We shoot them daily, they shoot us daily. It's gotten worse in the last week because of Hussein's capture, but they've been going on sporadically, but frequently, before then.

[fishguy]

12. I hate to quote Lenin, but he said the best way to peace is

to solve the everyday problems in people's lives.
If people have a job/steady income, food, shelter, security, water, plumbing, basic necessities, and a government that does not oppress them personally, most people will not give a crap about their government.

Maybe someone should have told Bushco before the war started.

It is easy to win the war, it is hard to win the peace.
Bush-Winner of the war, loser of the peace.

[sid dicious]

13. You mean again.

A few guys brought in from Iran could expedite things. But maybe when the weather there gets the coldest and a few poor people die in the streets. In other words...SOON!

[Dirk39]

15. The day, it becomes clear to the Shiites....

who are the majority in Iraq (about 75% IIRC), that the US will not allow an islamistic government.
They stay away from resistance, 'cause they know they will win, whenever there should be a democratic election.
It's a no win situation for the USA I guess.
Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[sistersofmercy]

16. There will be more than just rioting IMO

I think it's called a revolution.

[caledesi]

17. How would you like it if someone attacked your country and

you lost your job and to boot, and the "occupier" wouldn't hire you for rebuilding it? I would be pissed. Riots...just a matter of time.