| luinil said: Since we are paying for their reconstruction now, why not have them pay us while we are helping them build their country up? That is my only question. |
I don't understand the mentality of invading a country based on lies, bombing and blasting the hell out it, destroying it's government and allowing looting, and then expecting the people there to pay for it all. Some people talk of Iraq like it was Nazi Germany but there are major differences and the fact remains that even though Iraq was run by a ruthless dictator it wasn't the aggressor in this latest war, the United States was.
Should the United States be responsible for paying the costs? I'm not sure but just based on the fact that the intelligence used to justify the war was grossly inaccurate and top U.S. politicians may have purposely mislead everyone I think they do in fact bare responsibility for most if not all of the costs for rebuilding that country. If people are looking at someone to be angry at or that should be made to pay then look no further than George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and all the others responsible for signing off on it.
