MPs see conscription as possible cure to Iraq woes

Baghdad (AFP) May 25, 2012 Iraqi MPs are toying with a Saddam-era policy they hope will combat both high unemployment and fears of sectarian divisions in a country that was on the brink of civil war a few years ago: conscription. The nascent proposal is a potentially divisive one, and may face opposition in the Kurdish north and mostly Shiite south - two areas that were victims of now-executed