Plain English if you please: THE IRAQIS WANTED A SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE US WOULDN'T LET THEM!

IRAQ: HOW WASHINGTON IMPOSED A NEO-LIBERAL CONSTITUTION DE-REGULATING THE ECONOMY (and strangled an Iraqi Welfare State)

Washington -- not content with god-fathering an Islamist Constitution for Iraq that establishes Islamic religious principles as the basis for all laws -- also succeeded in scrapping a constitution, drafted by the Iraqis, that was modeled on that of the social-democratic Scandinavian countries, and replacing it with one that fulfilled "the wish-list of international investors,” as The Economist described the objectives of America's proconsuls in Iraq. Yet this is a story that has never been coherently told in the U.S. press. http://tinyurl.com/8jhkq
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