Dear Sir,
In his column "How Iraq could restore Blair's election prospects", Anatole Kaletsky asserts that the coalition has failed "to reconstruct the economy" in Iraq. Given that unemployment in the country has dropped from 70% to an estimated 30%, that doctors and many other professionals are receiving wages up to 20 times larger than their pre-war earnings and that the World Bank expects Iraq's GDP to rebound 33% this year after 2 years in decline, it makes one wonder exactly how the coalition has failed in this regard. To expect Iraq to leap back to the economic vigour of it's 1970's self after 30 years of brutality and unparalleled embezzlement in less than a year is absurd.
Yours Faithfully
John Swaine
7 Thanet Walk Rowhedge Colchester, Essex CO5 7EW
Wow.. A letter to the editor that isn't a flaming email. Not like me at all.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at May 21, 2004 12:46 AM