How could we have installed a workable government in Iraq?

Question

My Ideas: 1 Give the citizens shares or stock in the oil industry.
Break up the oil industry into hundreds of parts or companies, give every Iraqi shares of each company equally.

Have no Iraqi Government involvement in the oil industry.

Let the locals police themselves and create local laws.

Have only a small Central Government with limited power.

We paid 1 trillion dollars to restore a new government there and what Bush installed is not acceptable.
We need to create a new government in Iraq. The Iraqi Government now has total controll of all resources. This is a dangerouse system The power structure curently set up is perfect for a new totalitarian system to evolve and I believe it was done intensionaly By Bush so they may controll it like they do in saudi Arabia and Pre 2001 Iraq.
What if All natural resources were controlled by the government here in the USA. Then the first person to win the election would simply would not fund opposition parties. Game Over.

Answer 1

I think when they had elections where the names of the candidates were not know was a big mistake. People went to vote and the only thing they had to vote for is if they want a sunni, a shiite or a kurd. Right there, instead of uniting them as Iraqis, it added to the divisions by letting these people think - now it will be done the shiite way, or the kurd way,

Answer 2

When the Brits created Iraq after they won that area from the Turks after WW1 they installed a king, won rights to exploit Iraq's oil and went home. All this without regard to the ethnic and religious situation. It worked for them. Eighty years and change later, the Bush Junta attempted the same thing. Take over, install a 'government', win the right to exploit Iraqi oil and go home. All this without regard to the ethnic and religious situation. So far, not so good. Things have changed a lot in eight decades of history. Leaving aside the fact that this war and occupation should never have happened, Iraq should have been divided into three 'states' with a weak central government. Weak, because the situation won't allow for a strong government. The central government could simply direct the common infrastructure. Too bad the time for that has past.

Answer 3

First: Oil revenue sharing is already happening in Iraq even without a law being hammered out. Have you noticed there is no longer any talk of no food, water or energy in Iraq?

Second: If the US were to CREATE/INSTALL a government, we become exactly what threatens us. No one there or anywhere else in the region would stand by for that.

Third: I don't think you have any idea what the 'POWER STRUCTURE' is. You can't just SAY stuff with no meaning.

Fourth: Do you really think the US controls anything in Saudi Arabia? Sure, we are their best oil customer and we are interdependent but if we didn't sell fighters to the Saudis at discount prices, do you really think they would have just cried themselves to sleep over it? No. The Germans, French, Russians or Chinese would have been very happy to make the same deal and give the Saudis more for their money and we would have no influence over how they used it so----who's controlling who?

Answer 4

First off, there's a "Spell check" function on this site.
That said, some of your ideas have merit, but setting up a separate Oil company entity is just one more chance for abuse and corruption, so isn't a viable option.
Second, who ever told you we control the Saudis?? Nothing is further from the truth. While in fact, the British helped old King Faud achieve power over all the tribes, they,(The Saudis), used to be truly religious people, and cared about their subjects.
Money corrupts, and so they began a little cabal named "OPEC", and let the greed times roll.
FYI, most of the 9 -11 terrorists were Saudis, as is Usama Bin Laden,.....and those boys were never controlled by us, or anyone, even when we were arming them to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
The Iraqis are just like the Palestinians, the Iranians, and all the other death-worshiping rag heads, so we should just tell them to get their act together, or were outta there.
As we used to say in Vietnam,"Nuke them all, and let God sort them out".

Answer 5

The current parliamentary democracy is workable...

Maliki may be close to useless and the different sects may still be in a parliamentary power struggle, but a constitutional parliamentary democracy still has the best chance of representing the Iraqi people fairly.

Just remember, in the not too distant past, one could say confidently that democracy would never work in Europe.

Answer 6

Iraq would have been easier to control if the stupid f*cker Bush put in charge hadn't fired 500 000 Iraqi civil servants at the beginning of the occupation. That was a working government.

Answer 7

give the govt a little time to set up and work out the kinks...how quick you are to forget that it took france around 3 revolutions to get it right and the US didnt become a super power over night every country needs time to find the system that works for them and their culture so wait 50 yrs then give your criticisms..ps it is vital for the Iraqi govt to be involved with the oil industry how else r they going to produce revenue and develop their country b/c they shouldnt rely solely on the US

Answer 8

There was a workable government in Iraq before we invaded and deposed it.

As bad as it was, IT WORKED!

The next "workable" government in Iraq will be very similar. That could be next year or 100 years from now depending when we finally realize that fact and get out.