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Baghdad lacks credibility
27.5.2012
By Rizgar Khoshnaw, Washington DC
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May
27, 2012
It seems that Baghdad is fighting too many wars at
the same time and such action is very unwise and
will surly have an adverse affect on Iraq. Not a day
goes by without reading that Iraqi
politicians/government in Baghdad are making noise
about neighboring countries, except, of course,
Iran! They have managed to upset, one form or
another, many governments/countries such as Bahrain,
Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kurdistan
Regional Government KRG ....etc
I will only give a couple of examples of how
incompetent the Iraqi government is and unqualified
to govern a nation. In one well known and documented
case, the Iraqi government signs a multibillion
dollar electricity contract with a German company
that does not exists!! And when I approached the
Iraqi ambassador in Washington, D.C. regarding an
electricity project for Iraq, he completely ignored
our letters. I had sent two registered first class
letters to him and had sent three e-mails and not a
single response from his office. I finally called
his office and made my honest opinion known to him!
And yet, the Iraqi government signs a deal worth
billions of dollars with a company that they said
they had "researched" on the Internet that does not
even exists!! What a joke!
Another example, leaving names out, was during my
meetings with high level officials in Baghdad (Green
Zone) few years ago regarding certain contracts with
the Ministry of Defense and all they cared about was
how they could "somehow" personally benefit, in the
short-term of course, from my dealing with them. Of
course I had no idea what they were talking about
but it was made clear to me what they had in mind
but I refused to entertain such idea.
Also, I was asked to "help" with a visa issue to
come to the US and I did for this particular
individual, but when the time came for the interview
at the US embassy in Turkey, he did not show. I was
left with his complete application that I still
posses today and utter disappointment and
unprofessional behavior of this high-level
government official.
Is it possible that the Iraqi government in Baghdad
is making loud noises and creating such conflict
with the Kurdish government in order to shift the
attention from their lack of progress, corruption
and mismanagement? It is amazing to me that after
hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenue and
nine years of governing,www.ekurd.net
the Iraqis still do not have the very essential life
necessity; electricity! How is the possible? The
only possible answer is that the Iraqi politicians
really could careless about their own nation and all
they are worried/concerned about is their own
pockets and survival.
I think it is now obvious that the Kurdish
government can not work with Baghdad and the KRG
needs/should consider go on their own and try
develop Kurdistan without dealing with Baghdad
anymore. Kurdistan is very rich and the oil revenue
alone will surly suffice the needs of the whole
population without having the to look for Baghdad
for any financial assistance.
Furthermore, I have been reading in the news that PM
Nechirvan Barzani and President Massoud Barzani are
both making sincere efforts to work with Baghdad,
but Baghdad is not willing to honor and implement
its commitments and agreements to the Kurds and
their own people. The time has come to give Baghdad
an ultimatum and if no agreement is reached, then
the KRG should consider complete separation from
Iraq.
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Rizgar Xoshnaw, a regular contributing writer and
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