Comments on: Charging the Victim: Who Should Pay to Rebuild Iraq? http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rosemarie jackowski http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26355 rosemarie jackowski Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:34:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26355 Actually, the Bush/Congressional administration has been ingenious. This has been the largest money laundering scheme in the history of man - a transfer of wealth unlike anything in the past. First, the arms manufacturers make a bundle on the killing and destruction. Then more money is transferred to US corporations for the reconstruction. And don't forget the big campaign contributors at Blackwater who are laughing all the way to the bank... and some still call them crazy and stupid. They are not crazy. They are not stupid. They are just evil. What does this say about the US people? Anybody want to bet that at least 90% vote for a dem/repub - more of the same. Actually, the Bush/Congressional administration has been ingenious. This has been the largest money laundering scheme in the history of man – a transfer of wealth unlike anything in the past. First, the arms manufacturers make a bundle on the killing and destruction. Then more money is transferred to US corporations for the reconstruction. And don’t forget the big campaign contributors at Blackwater who are laughing all the way to the bank… and some still call them crazy and stupid.

They are not crazy. They are not stupid. They are just evil.
What does this say about the US people? Anybody want to bet that at least 90% vote for a dem/repub – more of the same.

]]> By: AJ Nasreddin http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26327 AJ Nasreddin Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:50:01 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26327 I thought it was clear that the US went into the war to get some money out of it. Didn't they always say a war will make the economy boom? Well, that hasn't happened. If the US paid to rebuild Iraq, it'll break the bank - and where would that leave America? Maybe we could move the Iraqis into the 2+ million forclosed homes in the US. We could hit two birds with one stone. I thought it was clear that the US went into the war to get some money out of it. Didn’t they always say a war will make the economy boom? Well, that hasn’t happened. If the US paid to rebuild Iraq, it’ll break the bank – and where would that leave America?

Maybe we could move the Iraqis into the 2+ million forclosed homes in the US. We could hit two birds with one stone.

]]> By: A http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26313 A Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:43:17 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26313 You broke it, you fix it, you murdering SOBs! You broke it, you fix it, you murdering SOBs!

]]> By: rosemarie jackowski http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26287 rosemarie jackowski Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:01:12 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26287 Hummmm - Ed, why are you letting the US taxpayers off the hook? If they were so stupid that they believed the lies, they should pay a 'stupidity tax'. Not everyone believed the lies. This is a case of 'if you broke it, you pay to fix it'. Ignorance of that moral principle is no excuse. There is nothing that could improve this world more than making those who finance war, also have to finance the reconstruction. I will go further than that. The US should also pay punitive damages for each Iraqi killed. How much is a human life worth? Some estimate the number of Iraqis killed since the bombing started in 1991, to be in excess of 3 million. Let's see - 3 million multiplied by 100 million equals...... Hummmm – Ed, why are you letting the US taxpayers off the hook? If they were so stupid that they believed the lies, they should pay a ‘stupidity tax’. Not everyone believed the lies.

This is a case of ‘if you broke it, you pay to fix it’. Ignorance of that moral principle is no excuse. There is nothing that could improve this world more than making those who finance war, also have to finance the reconstruction. I will go further than that. The US should also pay punitive damages for each Iraqi killed. How much is a human life worth? Some estimate the number of Iraqis killed since the bombing started in 1991, to be in excess of 3 million. Let’s see – 3 million multiplied by 100 million equals……

]]> By: ed kinane http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26273 ed kinane Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:30:38 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26273 as my friend frank here in syracuse pointed out, in my third paragraph i omitted a significant reality: the several million iraqis who had to flee the wonderful "democracy" we've created there. as my friend frank here in syracuse pointed out, in my third paragraph i omitted a significant reality: the several million iraqis who had to flee the wonderful “democracy” we’ve created there.

]]> By: Richard Posner http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26258 Richard Posner Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:15:08 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26258 This is not quite the crowning jewel in the amerikan crown of empire. Iran is yet to come. It's just the continuation of a long history of crimes against humanity. http://coldwarproductions.blogspot.com/2008/08/symphony-of-sorrow.html This is not quite the crowning jewel in the amerikan crown of empire. Iran is yet to come. It’s just the continuation of a long history of crimes against humanity.
http://coldwarproductions.blogspot.com/2008/08/symphony-of-sorrow.html

]]> By: John Hatch http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26248 John Hatch Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:51:24 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26248 Americans are outraged-outraged! that those ungrateful Iraqis (so many liberated from life) aren't rushing to spend money for oil not yet grabbed by Exxon etc on rebuilding the country that America destroyed for no reason. After all Blackwater has done for them! the outrage! Americans are outraged-outraged! that those ungrateful Iraqis (so many liberated from life) aren’t rushing to spend money for oil not yet grabbed by Exxon etc on rebuilding the country that America destroyed for no reason. After all Blackwater has done for them! the outrage!

]]> By: HR http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26237 HR Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:46:04 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26237 Whoops, sorry, that should have been "old Levin" in my prior post. I tend to lump these old-guard sellout democraps together and get their names mixed up. Whoops, sorry, that should have been “old Levin” in my prior post. I tend to lump these old-guard sellout democraps together and get their names mixed up.

]]> By: bozhidar balkas http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26226 bozhidar balkas Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:32:09 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26226 is there a democracy anywhere? US governance is not democaratic. its basic structure, broadly, is composed of the ruling and nonruling class. what US is 'giving' to iraq is its structure of governance. saddam was not al-hussein. he was hussein. al- maliki and other people with prefix al rule iraq or are allowed to rule iraq. calling US structure of governance by any name does not change the fact that it is dictatorship of the plutos; perhaps 5mn amers. working class is a serf. thank you. is there a democracy anywhere? US governance is not democaratic.
its basic structure, broadly, is composed of the ruling and nonruling class.
what US is ‘giving’ to iraq is its structure of governance. saddam was not al-hussein. he was hussein. al- maliki and other people with prefix al rule iraq or are allowed to rule iraq.
calling US structure of governance by any name does not change the fact that it is dictatorship of the plutos; perhaps 5mn amers.
working class is a serf. thank you.

]]> By: HR http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/charging-the-victim-who-should-pay-to-rebuild-iraq/#comment-26222 HR Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:12:32 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2501#comment-26222 So patently obvious, WE owe every dime of reconstruction costs, reparations, and civil damages. Old Durbin was spouting the same BS the other day ... as do millions of "patriotic" USans, who still babble about not understanding why the people of Iraq are not more grateful for all that we have "done for them". It sickens me. So patently obvious, WE owe every dime of reconstruction costs, reparations, and civil damages. Old Durbin was spouting the same BS the other day … as do millions of “patriotic” USans, who still babble about not understanding why the people of Iraq are not more grateful for all that we have “done for them”. It sickens me.

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