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2004-07-08 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-08 12:51:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Phippines Government as well as the Governments of India and Sri Lankan should forbid their nationals to go to any Muslim country in the Middle East to work. These poor people are treated like slaves in these countries and now, they have the added stress of being kidnapped and beheaded. Such sad existence!

Posted by Anonymous4724 2004-07-08 4:23:39 AM|| 2004-07-08 4:23:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 That's right. Why send your workers to Iraq to be slaughtered by Islamic militants when they can be slaughtered by homegrown Islamic militants in the Philippines?

Posted by RWV 2004-07-08 2:59:44 PM|| 2004-07-08 2:59:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Philippines government can't even control its own borders - I fail to see how it is going to prevent its nationals from going to Iraq. These guys need to concentrate on making it unnecessary for its people to go abroad by the tens of millions to make a living - by freeing the economy from the oligopolists and monopolists who are dominant there. Of course, this would also dry up the sources of bribe money for Filipino government officials, meaning that reform is a practical impossibility. And so Filipinos will continue turning up working as domestics in places far from their homeland.

None of this would have happened if the Philippines had remained under US control - but what do Filipino leaders care about the common people? Self-aggrandizement is all.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-07-08 3:05:09 PM|| [http://www.polipundit.com] 2004-07-08 3:05:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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