Reading between the lines will reveal the "catch" to this story.
Iraq's "strong economy" is the equivalent of an urban sh!t-hole in the U.S. where unemployment is low and per-capita GDP is astronomical due to heavy police activity, heavy demand for prison guards, excessive demand for energy to power the electric chair, robust construction and building materials sectors as vandalism requires endless reconstruction/repair of buildings, etc.
Of course it's not like our good economy, but it is interesting that this good news for Iraq is even allowed in the press here.
Do you discount capitalism completely?
I read something somewhere that asserted there were a few thousand requests for new businesses between 1972 and 2003 in Iraq, but since then, there have been something like 30 or 40 thousand applications. (I could be wrong on the precise numbers, but the difference was equally staggering)
Capitalism works nearly everywhere it is tried, and the less government influence, the better it works.
Isn't this post about Iraq not New Orleans?
And yet with this growth, it will soon be a more affluent sh$*# hole than every country around it.
Yeah, we should just let government regulate everything, like they pretty much do here in the US.