As the result, the local productivity under the UN programme has suffered drastically. The UN is not engaged in development programmes, only consumer products. This, the observers believe, is a wrong approach in reducing the Iraqi and Kurdish people's suffering and has had drastic consequences on the local economy, including unemployment and movements of people from the villages to the already crowded cities. The Kurdish projects are approved by Baghdad with drastic consequences. For example, the school textbooks are approved and printed by the Iraqi government.
Kurdish children have to study Baathist propaganda and the promotion of wrong ideas.
There is a picture of Saddam in the first page of every textbook. Kurdish children, whose fathers have been murdered by Saddam's regime, have to see Saddam's picture dozens of times a day. It will have extremely dangerous consequences on the future of the region. With this sort of school curriculum, the Kurdish children may not grow up to become productive members of society with respect for the human rights and law and order. The US believes that removing Saddam from power can only be achieved by donating cash to the Iraqi opposition abroad and by removing Saddam from power in a military coup.