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Headlines : IraqSenate Panel Moves to Shift Costs of War to Iraq
At a cost of $2800 per dead Mesopotamian, America is offering a holocaust to any caretaker government at very fair terms! (Per DeCapita costs do not include burial, which shall be externalized to families of the deceased.)
Fun in the sun. Grave in the shade.
[Posted By johnnycivil]Republished from Washington Post
With energy prices soaring and the federal deficit approaching $400 billion, senators from both parties moved yesterday to force Iraq to shoulder more financial responsibility for its reconstruction and self-defense.
On a unanimous vote taken late Wednesday night and announced yesterday, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation that would prohibit the Defense Department from funding any reconstruction or infrastructure program that costs more than $2 million.
Under the plan, Iraq also would have to pay to train and equip its security forces and provide the salaries of Sunni-dominated “Sons of Iraq” security groups. In addition, the administration would have to negotiate cost-sharing agreements for U.S.-Iraqi joint military operations, with an eye toward Iraq picking up the tab for items such as fuel.
Posted by johnnycivil
fight 'till you collapse
then get down
then get up
I am no financial expert, but long-term this may not work.
The Pentagon will still gt $2M apiece for most projects, which still sucked up by energy, military and security contracting outfits. Just arbritrarily shuffling the economic and financial costs to the Iraqis and Afghans will only, rightly so, anger them further. Frankly, if we face a deficit, it`s because we allowed every tariff, tax, income, profit, and finance laws to be eviscerated, mainly since the 2000 Presidential Selection. Ergo, every former shared economic benefit and liability, include intellectual properties, is now one-sided.
And for all intensive purposes, it looks like we`ll continue the PNAC doctrine of eviscerating global relations for a cheap buck….the only diferrence: a tax cut, for the rich or break for the poor?
In all this …. Karl Rove, Roger Ailes and NewsCorp, and the Bildergerg Group, are laughing all the way to the Bank.
http:shirley08.com/rubber_chicken_php
....to try to change House Speaker, for starters.
According to Nevada Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on ‘The Daily Show’ the war is presently costing us (and the Chinese) $5000 per second. I don’t see any practical solution to this financial catastrof*@k. I never dreamed that I would witness the decline and fall of the United States but it sure looks inevitable. I love this country and it’s people and I will miss it if it does collapse.