Brendan O’Neill says that America’s first gift to Iraq has been the compensation culture and a flood of personal injury claims
Whatever you think about democracy and human rights, the Coalition successfully imported one thing from the West into post-Saddam Iraq — the compensation culture.
Iraq has become a hotbed of legal claims and counterclaims, of individual complaints and class action lawsuits, for everything from physical and mental injury to destruction of property.
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