Iraq: US Has No Claim to Oil Boom

Posted by Cliff Schecter, Cliff Schecter's Blog at 1:27 PM on May 1, 2008.

Iraqis are opposed to plans to use their oil to finance the US occupation.

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Even though Colin Powell never really said it, it’s still spot on. “You break it, you bought it.”

BAGHDAD — As Congress gears up to debate the Bush administration’s latest request for an additional $108 billion in war funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraqis are fuming at suggestions being floated by lawmakers that Baghdad should start paying a share of the war’s costs by providing cheap fuel to the U.S. military.

“America has hardly even begun to repay its debt to Iraq,” said Abdul Basit, the head of Iraq’s Supreme Board of Audit, an independent body that oversees Iraqi government spending. “This is an immoral request because we didn’t ask them to come to Iraq, and before they came in 2003 we didn’t have all these needs.”

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After all we have done to them, this is our thanks? [Report this comment] Posted by: Rune on May 1, 2008 3:06 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] It makes me wonder if we should even bother bombing these ungrateful countries into liberty and democracy any more. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: After all we have done to them, this is our thanks? Posted by: Lauren Hooray for Iraqis! [Report this comment] Posted by: no1kstate on May 1, 2008 4:08 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I wish American lawmakers had the same sense of principles and ethics. If nothing else, all the money that's given to no-bid contracts and work-plus contracts is robbery of the American people. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Hooray for Iraqis! Posted by: the man with a dog Deb [Report this comment] Posted by: debmcd on May 2, 2008 11:17 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I don't have a problem with the Iraqis paying for reconstruction from their oil money. I just don't think we should make them pay for it while we are still there destroying their country. We need to get out and stop making things worse. How can we ask them to pay for reconstruction when the companies our own government hired for reconstruction haven't finished most of the projects they've been paid for due to the security problems. If we were to leave the state of their country would be up to them and if they decide they want to actually reconstruct, they can use their own money. But we won't be there egging on the insurgency and making matters worse with our presence. This is the most important reason to leave. To let the Iraqis start rebuilding their country. We can give aid but not soldiers. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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