Our Taxpayer Dollars go to rebuild Iraqi's homes that we Bombed!

[KoKo]

Just listening to BBC Radio and reporter from "London Telegraph" says "100s of Fallujan's are streaming back into the city." They are going through checkpoints where they are being told "they will be compensated for their homes if they have been damaged from being bombed." Also the reporter said the soldiers have said "Coalition will repair the Mosques and Minarets if they have been damaged."

So we are paying taxpayer dollars for this War and now we pay compensation for the damage the war is doing????? Bombing which we wouldn't have had to do if we didn't have Idiots running our country!


Can anyone believe this? Do the Freeps and Libertarians know we are paying twice for a War that shouldn't have been started in the first place?

There is a little town in NC which still hasn't been restored from FEMA Funds after a Hurricane that took place 5 years ago! What would the residents of Princessville, NC think about Iraqi's getting money to rebuild their homes for FREE while they had to try to get LOANS to repair or rebuild in their town, and most couldn't afford to even pay off the loans?

This is just unbelievable. :crazy:

[keithyboy]

1. Yeah, ain't it a bitch!! Can't even afford homes in the US

Maybe if the Marines would bomb our neighborhood, Halliburton would build us some homes.

And don't forget the level of destruction that we have wrought during and since Desert Storm. I guess we were just envious of all those beautiful castles, hotels, and luxary homes under Saddam's regime. Had to make sure they were destroyed.

[Bridget Burke]

2. But all our tax money isn't going to the Iraqis.....

The corporations (such as Halliburton) are taking a pretty big bite for doing the work.

I have no problem with the Iraqi homes being rebuilt--but the wrong people are making a profit.

[ComerPerro]

5. great point

If only most of the money were actually going to better the lives of Iraqis.

[KoKo]

6. But, Bridget, we are compensating Halliburton for rebuilding the Iraqi's

Houses. WE are footing the bill! Halliburton doesn't do this for free!

[KoKo]

3. Maybe some folks who go over there to FR should post this. Might wake

a few up about what this war is really about. Nothing a Freep hates worse than paying taxes and to think that he/she is paying to rebuild houses that we bombed might even get through their clueless heads what Bush is all about!

"Freebies for Iraqi's." That should get them going! Oh....the hypocracy of it all! :grr:

[ComerPerro]

4. Not only do rethugs know, they are proud

That's their greatest talking point

"We are good, because we are building hospitals and schools, restoring power and proving running water, ..."

And it amazes the fuck out of me.

Stupid reich wingers don't realize that Iraq had these things before we came in and bombed the fuck out of them. We are the reason they have no electricity, no running water, no hospitals, few schools, etc.

We bomb, call it "shock and awe" for ratings so that Joe Freeper can feel like an armchair warrior, and then Haliburton gets to rebuild with nice fat contracts.

And conservatives seem to think that this is heroic?

:wtf:

[KoKo]

7. As I said, someone please post "Freebies for Iraqi's" over there at FR

and see what happens. :shrug:

[workforpower]

8. Hardly,

Most of the money has been stolen. There are no auditors and no controls. Marketplace(PRI) did a whole week on it. John Kerry needs to be vague about this because the bush ad. is dishonest and no one can know what is really happening.

[KoKo]

9. From Bloomberg News: Iraq Costs Soaring/Bush to Reshuffle Funds!

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IRAQ COSTS SURGING: BUSH MAY HAVE TO RESHUFFLE FUNDS.

May 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. military operations in Iraq may be $4 billion over budget by August, forcing President George W. Bush to shift money from other Pentagon accounts or ask Congress for more money before the November election, say Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

``If the tempo of combat stays like it has been since early April, they'll have to increase the troops strength and they'll need a supplemental budget of well over $75 billion,'' said Representative John Murtha, 71, a member of Congress from Pennsylvania since 1974 and the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee panel that approves defense spending.

The monthly cost of the war is approaching $6 billion, at least $2 billion more than Bush projected two months ago, said Senator Lincoln Chafee, 51, a first-term Republican from Rhode Island who is chairman of the Foreign Relations subcommittee that oversees Iraq. The Pentagon has spent more than $70 billion in Iraq since January 2003, according to data provided by the Pentagon comptroller.

The Pentagon stepped up shipments last week of M1 Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and M-16 bullets following insurgencies in Fallujah and cities near Baghdad that pushed the Army and Marines into their fiercest battles since Bush declared an end to major combat a year ago Saturday. At least 128 servicemen were killed in April, the worst monthly toll yet.

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[KoKo]

10. Check out these photo's and story. We are going to be paying ALOT!

here's the DU link in LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=527553#527592