The decades of 1970s and 1980s were full of practices by the former regime’s to distract and confuse the society, through preparing a specific story to keep the public opinion occupied and away from politics. The regime used to create weird scenarios, including the story of Abu Tubar and other similar stories.

 

Those practices or plays are practiced in the new Iraq but in a new way, by promoting a shallow and unimportant subject to be the main concern of the public opinion. What is worse than this is the elites and the media community swept along by that issue, instead of concerning with and focusing on the critical subjects related to the country’s fate. The evidence on the above is that the audience does not remember anything of the government composition except that a specific minister was included in the accountability and justice law, while overlooking the government program, its implementation mechanisms and the timetable of the government’s achievements.

 

Conclusions:

 

·         The preoccupation with the side subjects makes us forget the essential subjects, and the rapid succession of events in the present time erases the memory of the society quickly.

 

·         The previous regime manipulated many conditions suffered by the Iraqi people, and used them as tools to control the public opinion.

 

·         Iraq suffers a lost economic compass, which costs the country many financial losses and missed opportunities, causing Iraq to fall behind among the other states.

 

·         The mistakes of persons are reflected on the picture of the Iraqi institutions negatively, which affects the description of the institutions as a legal guarantor of the citizen’s rights and the State’s entity.

 

·         There are good updates in the legislated Iraqi laws in order to keep up with the social needs and changes producing social customs contrary to law.

 

Recommendations:

 

·         It is supposed to deal with any case or even within the mechanisms of the deep thinking and stay away of shallowness in dealing with the issues emerging in the Iraqi scene.

 

·         The society leaders must benefit from the experiences during the period of the former regime and direct the society towards the reasonable thinking, and avoid sweeping along by the preoccupying means broadcasted by some bodies to distract the public opinion.

 

·         It is important for the government to calculate the value of the alternative or lost opportunity, to define the amount of loss borne by it before taking any economic decision.

 

·         It is necessary not to compromise the entity of the Iraqi institution; rather the correction comes through holding the people accountable and working to consolidate the picture of the institution against the individual mistakes and breaches of those who work within it.

 

·         The updates and modifications done by the Iraqi legal legislator are late and they need to be more synchronized with the behaviors contrary to law, not after getting worse.

 

Names of some participating members during the week’s dialogue:

 

(1)   Dr. Farhad Alaaldin

 

(2)   Mr. Abdullah Al-Kharbit

 

(3)   Mr. Nassar Al-Haj

 

(4)   Mr. Seif Al-Khayat

 

(5)   Mr. Shwan Al-Dawoodi

 

(6)   Dr. Ali Al-Yasiri

 

(7)   Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh

 

(8)   Mr. Riyadh Al-Saedi

 

(9)   Mr. Sardar Abdullah

 

(10)  Mr. Yaseen Taha

 

(11)  Mr. Laith Al-Jazaery

 

(12)  Mr. Ibrahim Al-Mayali

 

What is contained in this paper is a summary of the proposed opinions in the electronic groups of RCD.