Why Iraq can explode
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 3:44AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION: "Iraq's Oil Fuels Problems," by Ernesto Londono, Washington Post, 25-31 May 2009.

Iraqi army majors making $70k a month embezzling state funds and Sunni guards walking away from their checkpoints because they haven't been paid in months.

It would seem that Iranian Shiites have nothing on their Iraqi co-religionists when it comes to running an inept, wildly corrupt government.

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