A Piece of the Action
Headline from today's LA Times:
Iraq's New Leaders Vow to Fight Rampant Corruption
Patrick Cockburn describes the reality:
So divided is the new government that each ministry becomes the fief of the party that holds it. The ministries are, in practice, patronage machines employing only party loyalists. They are milked for money, jobs and contracts. Ministers cannot be dismissed for incompetence or corruption, however gross, because it would lead to the deal between the parties and communities unravelling. The government has become a sort of bureaucratic feudalism with each ministry presided over by an independent chieftain.
In other words, rather than fighting rampant corruption, Iraq's new leaders are more likely to demand their fair share of it.
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