Iraqis should share oil dividends

To the editor:

Alaska's dividend example could end the Iraq war. Iraq oil money could be invested, returning an annual dividend to all Iraqis. The oil belongs to these people to invest in education and alternatives to oil to the benefit of all Iraqis and all people of the world. Investing in their own oil infrastructure and education would give them rapidly increasing control of their own future.

A resource dividend is the only way to stop fighting for oil. It would bring prosperity and security to the region.

Former Alaska governor Jay Hammond has proposed an Iraq dividend like the Alaska dividend. The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend comes from the 1862 Morrill Land Grant School Funding Endowment passed during the Civil War to fund schools forever and end ignorance and war.

DAE MILES, Fairbanks, Alaska