Firedoglake: http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/26/whose-skin-rahm/
As we've noted before, members of Congress have recently decided that it
would be a great thing T to make Iraqis pay for their reconstruction or as
Rahm Emanuel stated "They have got to have some skin in the game."
http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/13/here-be-monsters/
Not surprising, this is not going over well in Iraq. Fatih Abdulsalam of
Azzaman Iraq makes this very clear:
Demands like these are not only unacceptable but are in a sense meant
to
punish Iraqis for the destruction and devastation U.S.-waged invasion and
occupation of their country has caused.
Does it mean that the U.S. Congress wants us to pay billions of
dollars
for the reconstruction of bridges, hospitals, schools as well as cities,
towns and villages U.S. warplanes and military might have destroyed?
(snip)
Iraqis have been made to pay with their blood which has been flowing
like rivers since the U.S. invasion. And shockingly the U.S. would like
them
to pay for the destruction it has inflicted on their country as if their
blood is not enough.
The U.S. is morally responsible for the construction of Iraq but it is
doubtful whether its political leaders have any more morality left. The
whole Iraq war is morally wrong. It is too much indeed to ask the U.S. to
get it morally right. [..]
Skin in the game, Rahm? It seems the Iraqis are the ones getting
skinned.
Video: Dr Dahlia Wasfi's testimony before the Democratic Congressional
Forum on Iraq April 26, 2006 on the price the people of Iraq have already
paid.
http://www.liberatethis.com/index.html
A paraphrased Idiot GW Bush - "Rebuildin' is hard work. Just ask N'
Orleans. I'm a War Presnit. I just blows the **** up. Besides, this is
about
economics.and I'm the business guy.blowin' **** up creates 'murican jobs
in
the defense industry and keeps us strong, if we pay to rebuild Iraq, that
don't help no one. People need to stand up on their own. That's what
democracy is about. You have to stand up when your buildings fall down."
Tip-quit blowing **** up before worrying about fixing it.
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