If you haven’t thrown open your windows and started yelling about how you’re not going to take it any more, maybe this will get you started.
Have you seen the latest report on what the US has spent rebuilding Iraq since the invasion?
It’s about $48 billion. For security, oil, electricity and water facilities we spent $23.2 billion. Okay, they need the infrastructure.
How much have the Iraqis spent on similar services since 2005? How about $3.9 billion? Well, maybe they don’t have the money. Wrong!
While American taxpayers are cursing at gas pumps, driving over bridges that might collapse and arresting kids without jobs or an education, Iraq will have taken in a $79 billion budget surplus by year’s end from the recent boost in oil prices.
A $79 billion SURPLUS.
First of all, let’s get this straight. There is no way that the Iraqis can ever pay us back for the loss of our brave 4,132 fallen and 16,960 wounded soldiers. We have paid the ultimate price freeing them from the monstrous Saddam Hussein and then trying to keep the Iraqis from killing each other.
But they can pay us back for all the funds we are pouring into that country.
Perhaps there’s some international law against taking money from another country. But heck, we probably broke all sorts of laws when we invaded Iraq in the first place.
There must be a way to get paid legitimately. Here are some ideas:
