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Message #113382 posted by forged registration (Info) March 17, 2008 14:35:49 ET
In Reply to: Re: red cross report: iraq is still a shit hole posted by imnother (Info) March 17, 2008 14:10:06 ET
why should iraq squander what little wealth it has to pay haliburton to repair the damage caused by the usa, especially while the usa is still occupying the country?
imagine if your neighbour decided to protect his family from a dog you don't even have by kicking in your front door and smashing up your house and moving in with his burly sons to beat the place up some more to make sure you don't have a dog hidden somewhere...now imagine that you're sitting in the ruins of your house, and your neighbour opens the window and complains publicly that this is costing him too much, and that you should be paying his sons to make the place more liveable
you say they 'earned' $41 billion in 2007...that is much less than half the cash the usa dumped into iraq during the same period...iraq is already spending money on itself but it isn't going to spend it's last penny fixing the usa's mistakes because it will need that money to limp along if the usa ever pulls out
y'know, iraq also has debt problems far worse than the usa...the debts of it's former regime were not entirely forgiven...iraq still carries over $56 billion in debt (more than 100% of it's annual GDP)...it's total exports (85% of which are oil) amounted to only $34 billion...it had a $6 billion budget deficit in 2007, with only $42 billion in government revenues...it's financial/currency reserves are only $21 billion...how are they supposed to pay for reconstruction with those financials? the country is an a political/social/economic crisis and the pentagon wants iraqis to spend what little they have left to reduce the american taxpayers cost of what the american taxpayers did to iraq
AMAZING!
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/iz.html
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