Wednesday, April 23, 2003
[4/23/2003 5:28:44 PM | Thomas Guzman]
Hey buddy can you spare a couple of million?
Bush administration must be hurting, because they are out panhandling their coalition of the willing and others, for money to help Iraq. They are calling for an international donors conference to raise money, so bring your wallets, boys and give until it hurts.
We bomb the hell out of the place and now we want other countries to pay for the damage we inflicted on Iraq's citizens. That's pretty fair. I guess Ari Flesher would say something like this.
"The international community is being asked to contribute to the humanitarian effort in helping the poor people that Saddam has brutally oppressed the, for 12 long years. Now that the country has been free of his oppressive regime, it is incumbent on the world to help these poor people."
Pentagon comptroller Dov Zakheim said a number of countries have already pledged assistance. Zakheim said he believed there will be more international interest in investing in Iraq's reconstruction than in the case of Afghanistan, which has less appealing prospects for economic revitalization. The initial donors conference on Afghanistan produced pledges of about $2 billion, but the Bush administration complained for months that donors were slow in giving the money.
"There's tremendous interest in getting the Iraqis going because, let's face it, the Afghan economy has been a subsistence economy," he said in an Associated Press interview, "whereas Iraq is one of the few Middle Eastern countries that is blessed with both oil and water -- in great amounts -- which means that it has a naturally balanced economy."
So, we can surmise from this, that countries should be beating down the doors to help Iraq, while Afganistan can learn to just get by at subsistence levels , as far as their economy is concerned. Their problem is that they don't have oil as a natural resource, so what do they expect?
So, if you oppose the U.S. make sure you are a country that has oil, so that when your infrastructure and your citizens are blown to pieces, to free your people, the survivors of your country, will have the world at your doorstep with fistfulls of money. "Money makes the world go around, the world go around. the world go around."
So, bring your hearts and your wallet boys and give until it hurts as long as the country has oil, that is.
Sources Cited
Washington Associated Press
Hey buddy can you spare a couple of million?
Bush administration must be hurting, because they are out panhandling their coalition of the willing and others, for money to help Iraq. They are calling for an international donors conference to raise money, so bring your wallets, boys and give until it hurts.
We bomb the hell out of the place and now we want other countries to pay for the damage we inflicted on Iraq's citizens. That's pretty fair. I guess Ari Flesher would say something like this.
"The international community is being asked to contribute to the humanitarian effort in helping the poor people that Saddam has brutally oppressed the, for 12 long years. Now that the country has been free of his oppressive regime, it is incumbent on the world to help these poor people."
Pentagon comptroller Dov Zakheim said a number of countries have already pledged assistance. Zakheim said he believed there will be more international interest in investing in Iraq's reconstruction than in the case of Afghanistan, which has less appealing prospects for economic revitalization. The initial donors conference on Afghanistan produced pledges of about $2 billion, but the Bush administration complained for months that donors were slow in giving the money.
"There's tremendous interest in getting the Iraqis going because, let's face it, the Afghan economy has been a subsistence economy," he said in an Associated Press interview, "whereas Iraq is one of the few Middle Eastern countries that is blessed with both oil and water -- in great amounts -- which means that it has a naturally balanced economy."
So, we can surmise from this, that countries should be beating down the doors to help Iraq, while Afganistan can learn to just get by at subsistence levels , as far as their economy is concerned. Their problem is that they don't have oil as a natural resource, so what do they expect?
So, if you oppose the U.S. make sure you are a country that has oil, so that when your infrastructure and your citizens are blown to pieces, to free your people, the survivors of your country, will have the world at your doorstep with fistfulls of money. "Money makes the world go around, the world go around. the world go around."
So, bring your hearts and your wallet boys and give until it hurts as long as the country has oil, that is.
Sources Cited
Washington Associated Press
# posted by Thomas @ 11:09 PM 
