Joy & Chaos

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It's great to see so many thumbs up from the people of Iraq. I can only imagine what they've been through over the past decades. I can understand them cracking the bank and taking it's money but it's to bad they have to go on destroying their own infrastructure although it's to be expected. Most of these people have never had much and don't picture themselves as ever really owning anything valuable much less being a viable citizen with some control over a government that would be their own.
 
i'm disappointed that troops have been watching them loot hospitals and places like that, especially as it'll be aid money being spent on stuff they already have that might be better spent elsewhere.
 
Actiually they have been trying to protect some hospitals and other areas but there are 6,000,000 people in Baghdad. How large of a police force you you need under normal circumstances for a city that size? Los Angeles has 3,500,000 people and has what maybe 20,000 police(wild guess).
So you might need 40,000 police under normal circumstances. These circumstances are chaotic so you'd probably want triple that amount. Well we probably only have 30,000-50,000 troops in Baghdad and they're pretty busy as it is i would imagine. I just don't think they have the resources.
 
i'd agree, and policing a city that size while still fighting some pockets of resistance here and there is next to impossible.
 
I wonder what affect the taking of all that money from banks has on the economy? Obviously money still has some value or they wouldn't be taking it.
 
they might be in for a shock if the notes are pulled from circulation when saddams mug is taken off them
 
Hmm. Interesting question. I don't think they could simply cancel the old currency. If they issue a new currency they're going to have to let them trade in the old currency. They can't just impoverish the entire country.
 
We need a damn economist. Maybe Madrin. He knows a little something about economics and he's definetly a damn something.:D
I never took economics. I imagine the dynamics of this are pretty complex.
 
Many of them are burning the money they've stolen. In the beginning they were looting government offices & UN offices (there are a few UN RangeRovers cruising Bafghdad these days :) ) but now the thieves have gotten fully involved & they're hitting civilian outlets. Some of the citizenry have taken to street justice to end it. It'll end soon.
 
Well it has to end soon. Did you see the line on the roads of people trying to get into Baghdad to loot? You can only loot like that for so long before there's nothing left.
 
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