Mike,
I know it's common to say "we" when what's meant is "the U.S.
government," but I think it's important to distinguish between people
and governments.
Assuming what you mean is that the U.S. government should pay to fix
what it broke in Iraq, I agree. However if the new Iraqi government
isn't grateful enough about Saddam's overthrow to offer to repay the
bill as soon as they have the resources to do it, I think it would be
legitimate for the U.S. government to use money and resources recovered
from Saddam and his Baath Party to which no one else has a specific
claim to cover these costs.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
I agree that we should fix what we broke. But we need to cut it off at
that. We shouldn't fix what Saddam broke, or socialize them.-Mike
Lars Petrus wrote:
I don't want to cause a huge transcontinental debate so I dropped the
non SF addresses. But I don't understand this one.It seems completely appropriate to me that the US pays to repair some
of the property damage it has caused in Iraq. To me, "You break it -
you fix it" is as good and ancient a moral principle as you can find.
And I thought that was true for most libertarians?Demanding that Iraq pay for it reminds me of the Chinese governments
habit of sending the relatives of executed prisoners a bill for the
ammunition used.I heard a rumor about how Halliburton got a $50M bridge rebuilding
contract that an Iraqi firm offered to do for $300k. That's the end
I'd start looking to cut this cost./Lars
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How do you get conservatives to abandon their principles and vote
for a $20 billion foreign-aid giveaway? You tie it to money for
our troops. Suckers fall for it every time. Either vote for
the total package or you're abandoning our troops!That's how $67 billion to supply and pay our troops in Iraq
becomes $87 billion. You just add on $20 billion in spending --
some for Iraq, some for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Liberia and Sudan...
even a little over $200 million for the State Department.The leadership doesn't want a separate vote on the $20 billion in
foreign aid because they know conservatives would vote against our
tax dollars going for such outrageous expenditures as:$900 million to import petroleum products into Iraq (a country with
the second largest oil reserves in the world);$793 million for healthcare in Iraq when we're in the midst of our
own crisis and about to raise Medicare premiums of our seniors;$10 million for "women's leadership programs" (more social
engineering);$200 million in loan guarantees to Pakistan (a military dictatorship
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And how about this? $2.1 billion to rebuild Iraq's oil
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and there is serious talk amongst them to vote against the $87
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to supply and pay our troops. But the $20 billion giveaway is a
different matter -- and that is why leadership has been so adamant
to tie the two amounts together and has aggressively opposed
attempts to separate the two amounts. It makes you wonder if
leadership is more interested in the foreign-aid giveaway than it
is in supporting our troops.Your representative needs to hear from you now. The vote on the
$87 billion package will be held Friday afternoon. Urge your
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representative to stop this $20 billion foreign-aid giveaway before
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The Liberty CommitteeP.S. There is additional information about this issue posted on
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