there are other factors, which really encourage investors, to modify our rules and revelations in regard to the procedures of financial transfer, and at the same time fiscal policy, and improving certain rules and regulations which are attached to investors and the banking system. the government is very serious to take actions around all these lines, and i want to report the security of iraq is good and iraq has been enjoying a period of safety and security for the last few years. what about corruption? there has been, over many years, a worry about the level of corruption in iraq. a recent news article, the director of the iraq initiative at londons chatham house said: the system of corruption and political patronage is entrenched and has stifled any reform attempts for the past 20 years. what are you doing to address this? corruption is a disease in any society, and it s a serious disease. we have to fight it and we have to really put laws and enforce these laws against cor
is entrenched and has stifled any reform attempts for the past 20 years. what are you doing to address this? corruption is a disease in any society, and it s a serious disease. we have to fight it and we have to really put laws and enforce these laws against corruption. we have taken serious actions. i know there are reports from outside and occasionally they mention corruption in iraq. iraq is not the only country that faces corruption. it s all over the world. in iraq, we have taken very serious steps. we haven t announced all the steps taken because we want to act seriously on corruption. and i want to mention that corruption, for the last year or two, has decreased in iraq and there are serious government policies to abandon and to take action against corruption in the departments and ministries
target of the ad and you always hurt yourself. but i also think part of this, lawrence, is the fact that just because it s called campaign finance reform, and we all believe that the system needs to be reformed, doesn t mean that it s a good law. in the first amendment is the fixed variable here. as ben pointed out correctly for 36 years all. reform attempts have been aimed at the candidates in the political parties, and as a result now the money has gone out to the ideological groups chiefly with undisclosed donations and increasingly you re going to see in american politics in, any congressional race, any given u.s. senate race, that it s the outside groups, these ideological groups, that have the biggest voice in the race with undisclosed dollars. steve, you re wrong. you re wrong. you need to have full disclosure and transparency. let the candidates rates money. you re wrong. let them raise unlimited money manned let them disclose it. steve, this money is affiliated wit
target of the ad and you always hurt yourself. but i also think part of this, lawrence, is the fact that just because it s called campaign finance reform, and we all believe that the system needs to be reformed, doesn t mean that it s a good law. in the first amendment is the fixed variable here. as ben pointed out correctly for 36 years all. reform attempts have been aimed at the candidates in the political parties, and as a result now the money has gone out to the ideological groups chiefly with undisclosed donations and increasingly you re going to see in american politics in, any congressional race, any given u.s. senate race, that it s the outside groups, these ideological groups, that have the biggest voice in the race with undisclosed dollars. steve, you re wrong. you re wrong. you need to have full disclosure and transparency. let the candidates rates money. you re wrong. let them raise unlimited money manned let them disclose it. steve, this money is affiliated wit