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Highly IntolerantJoined: Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:31 pmPosts: 2326Location: Birmingham
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:04 pm |
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Barely TolerantJoined: Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:08 amPosts: 356Location: Somersetshire
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john doom
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:09 am |
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StaffJoined: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:16 pmPosts: 285Location: Birmingham
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A few Saddam Facts.....
Saddam consolidated power in a nation riddled with profound tensions. Long before Saddam, Iraq had been split along social, ethnic, religious, and economic fault lines: Sunni versus Shi'ite, Arab versus Kurd, tribal chief versus urban merchant, nomad versus peasant. Stable rule in a country rife with factionalism required the improvement of living standards. Saddam moved up the ranks in the new government by aiding attempts to strengthen and unify the Ba'ath party and taking a leading role in addressing the country's major domestic problems and expanding the party's following.
Saddam actively fostered the modernization of the Iraqi economy along with the creation of a strong security apparatus to prevent coups within the power structure and insurrections apart from it. Ever concerned with broadening his base of support among the diverse elements of Iraqi society and mobilizing mass support, he closely followed the administration of state welfare and development programs.
Saddam established and controlled the "National Campaign for the Eradication of Illiteracy" and the campaign for "Compulsory Free Education in Iraq," and largely under his auspices, the government established universal free schooling up to the highest education levels; hundreds of thousands learned to read in the years following the initiation of the program. The government also supported families of soldiers, granted free hospitalization to everyone, and gave subsidies to farmers. Iraq created one of the most modernized public-health systems in the Middle East, earning Saddam an award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
To diversify the largely oil-based economy, Saddam implemented a national infrastructure campaign that made great progress in building roads, promoting mining, and developing other industries. The campaign revolutionized Iraq's energy industries. Electricity was brought to nearly every city in Iraq, and many outlying areas.
Saddam focused intensely on fostering loyalty to the Ba'athist government in the rural areas. After nationalizing foreign oil interests, Saddam supervised the modernization of the countryside, mechanizing agriculture on a large scale, and distributing land to peasant farmers.[7] The Ba'athists established farm cooperatives, in which profits were distributed according to the labors of the individual and the unskilled were trained. The government's commitment to agrarian reform was demonstrated by the doubling of expenditures for agricultural development in 1974-1975. Moreover, agrarian reform in Iraq improved the living standard of the peasantry and increased production, though not to the levels Saddam had hoped for.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:54 am |
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:13 pm |
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:32 am |
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:20 am |
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Zero ToleranceJoined: Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:18 pmPosts: 6315Location: Landscape XX
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I was looking at some magazines in WHSmiths yesterday and 'The Economist' caught my eye. There was a picture of George Bush smiling saying "At last! good noose from Iraq"
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:03 pm |
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:49 pm |
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:58 pm |
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john doom
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:17 pm |
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:22 pm |
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SpammerJoined: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:41 pmPosts: 4140Location: The Internet
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i made a farily coherant and lengthy (for me) post in here... what happened to it?
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