Iraq: The Cost Of Liberation (to Iraqis)

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Iraq: The cost of Liberation (to Iraqis) Aug 15, 2011
Salon.com reveals that the Iraqi people are being forced to pay over badly needed funds to their 'liberators' instead of using this to reconstruct their country.

Alice-in-wonderland logic!

Not only is this immoral, but it does actual harm. It also exposes the lie that some people still cling to:

The perverse notion that an utterly destroyed country must pay reparations to the parties who maliciously planned and facilitated its destruction is the grim reality today for the people [of] Iraq. That there are those who actually bemoan the lack of Iraqi gratitude for the invasion of their country and who still cling to the pathetic notion that the unfathomable devastation they unleashed upon Iraqi civilians was some sort of “liberation” speaks powerfully to the capacity for human self-delusion. The systematic destruction and pillaging of Iraq is a war crime for which none of its perpetrators have yet been held to account (though history often takes[though history often takes time to be fully written] time to be fully written), and of which the extraction of reparation payments is but one component.


http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn ... index.html

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Re: Iraq: The cost of Liberation (to Iraqis) Aug 15, 2011
LoL. It hasn't taken eight years to repair the damage from the initial invasion. That was repaired (and then some) by 2004.

The lion's share of the costs of the Iraq war to the Iraqis have been from insurgents and a lesser extent to counter insurgent operations - which, depending on your level of common sense, would also be blamed on the insurgents.
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Re: Iraq: The Cost Of Liberation (to Iraqis) Aug 15, 2011
Unlikely, it wasn't an invasion that lasted for a few months. But years and US, UK and France were bombing targets way before the invasion began under the unsanctioned no fly zone.

But who is footing the bill now

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn ... aq_hussain

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Re: Iraq: The Cost Of Liberation (to Iraqis) Aug 15, 2011
desertdudeshj wrote:Unlikely, it wasn't an invasion that lasted for a few months. But years and US, UK and France were bombing targets way before the invasion began under the unsanctioned no fly zone.

But who is footing the bill now

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn ... aq_hussain

Someone gotta feed the Military Industrial Complex and every little bit helps, specially when yo're up to your tits in debt


Uhm, the article merely mentioned companies such as Pepsi the government was paying. I suppose that was why the article was such thin gruel because there wasn't any meat to it.
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