This is so typical that it’s hardly surprising–From UPI:

Iraq’s oil minister said Iraq’s oil unions are not legitimate and have no more standing in the debate over the oil law than an ordinary citizen.

“There are no legal unions in Iraq,” Hussein al-Shahristani said Wednesday in response to a question about various factions’ positions on the controversial oil law. “Those people who call themselves representatives of the oil workers have not been elected to the position.”

    But it’s this part that really speaks volumes:

The lone remaining law from the Saddam Hussein regime kept by U.S. occupying powers and the successive Iraqi government is the one that bans worker organizing in the public sector.

    Yeah, start a war to impose “democracy,” which translates into exporting union-busting. What a great example this country is to the rest of the world.