One can only shake one's head at American thinking:
"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."
Read the full report from chicagotribune.com here.
Meanwhile, take a deep breath and read what the person said to be the principal architect of the Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, has to say about the occupation of Iraq:
"The fact is, however, that we did end up with an occupation authority for a full nine months, and I’m afraid that the label occupation sticks to us even to this day, although the occupation ended in June of 2004. Doug considers that the biggest mistake we made."
The full report on Wolfowitz and Co speaking at an event relating to a new book by Wolfowitz can be read, here, at ThinkProgress.
"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."
Read the full report from chicagotribune.com here.
Meanwhile, take a deep breath and read what the person said to be the principal architect of the Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, has to say about the occupation of Iraq:
"The fact is, however, that we did end up with an occupation authority for a full nine months, and I’m afraid that the label occupation sticks to us even to this day, although the occupation ended in June of 2004. Doug considers that the biggest mistake we made."
The full report on Wolfowitz and Co speaking at an event relating to a new book by Wolfowitz can be read, here, at ThinkProgress.
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