Expatriate Workers in Iraq

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This paper argues that, despite the fact that there is an active recruitment of Westerners to Iraq, whether by business organizations, the U.S. government, or international humanitarian organizations, and many view the successful recruitment of expatriates as necessary for the rebuilding of the country, Westerners should be discouraged from working in Iraq for the time being because the population links them to the occupation army and targets them for attacks. The paper argues that the occupation army does not provide foreigners with the necessary security, and Iraq is a dangerous war zone of Iraqis against Western political powers at the present. The paper includes a detailed outline.

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"The change in Iraq's investment laws were intended to attract expatriates and foreign investment into the country. The post-war investment laws only increased Iraqi resentment against Westerners. The revised economic laws and the foreign investments they attracted and continue to attract convinced many Iraqis that the war was economically motivated. Several developments have confirmed this suspicion because, as reported by Bill Rosenberg in "War Profiteers: Corporate Beneficiaries of the US War On Iraq," contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq and the management of important sectors in its economy, such as roads and telecommunications were given by the Bush Administration to American corporations. From the Iraqi point of view, this means that the U.S. military, under the directions of the Bush Administration, did not simply destroy the country and its infrastructure services like electricity and telecommunications but its corporations will profit from this destruction."

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