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US government asks citizens to donate to the Iraq adventure
BillieTheBot
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LOL!
I like this in particular:
Never mind that the taxpayer has already paid upteen billions... and never mind that Bush's friends in Halliburton and co. have made so much money they must be running out of space to store it.
Still, they might as well try anything that crosses their minds. They've been getting away with murder for this long already anyway...
I like this in particular:
Contributors have no way of knowing who's getting the money or precisely where it's headed because the government says it must keep the details secret for security reasons.
Never mind that the taxpayer has already paid upteen billions... and never mind that Bush's friends in Halliburton and co. have made so much money they must be running out of space to store it.
Still, they might as well try anything that crosses their minds. They've been getting away with murder for this long already anyway...
Beep boop. I'm a bot.
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More political doublespeak for: "Free" from any accountability to the taxpayers we're milking to perpetuate our occupation and war crimes. "Prosperous" for our corporate cronies who will be happily funded for that much longer with your gullible donations, suckas!
it is the ultimate piss take!
Time to give the war criminals the only handout they truly deserve, all expense paid tickets to a Hague docket to answer for their lies, deliberate and flagrant contraventions of the Nurmberg Principles, Hague-Vienna-Geneva Conventions, and indeed the US Constitution Article 6 (which makes those ratified treaties the law of the land in America itself).
Endorsing their aggressivist actions with any personal funds above and beyond that for which they have already extorted the nation into longterm debt would be the height of gullibility.
Caveat Emptor!
The American public has already BEEN giving and to an extent both extortionistic and fiscally abhorrent as it was done under the most fraudulent of pretexts, without transparency from the get go and with economic repercussions that will continue to be born by the next one or two generations.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1246876,00.html
(edited to add another interesting revelation about "reconstruction" spending...)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05207/543937.stm
Your comparisons are apples and oranges I'm afraid. Charities don't decimate nations in order to secure a further base for perpetual profiteering, nor do they presume to suggest that contributions will not be accounted for to the penny on the age old bogus grounds of "security".
This laughable latest appeal is nothing more than further demonstration of the depths of brazen arrogance to which the criminals in Washington will descend in their bid to pass the buck.
Excellent. Does anyone think people are honestly gonig to pay for a stupid war where their soldiers are getting killed for no reason? They may see it as, if they do not pay, the troops come home sooner.
Would it be OK for an American to donate money to the Red Cross, for example?
Or that the money is being squandered?
You've made two different points and neither really answers the question.
The time has come to call the conmen on their game and end it.
Now please demonstrate that UK education equips its youth to comprehend the interrelation amongst various aspects of a given situation in order to appreciate the bigger picture in its full context. I'd truly hate to think cognitive dissonance was as endemic there as it is to my own nation.
You can make the exact same argument about many ordinary charities at home and abroad - that they only exist and only demand our money because of the inherent inequality and hypocrisy within our society.
What he's saying, in layman's talk, is that US business is making/will make a shitload from Iraq, with no tax being paid, and the funding for this escapade is supporting business greed. i.e. you give money as requested and you're furthering the the corporate interest which started the war in the first place.
:eek2:
Well...maybe as a bi-product.
I dare say the same could be said of Hitler if he was requesting international contributions to held re-build Eastern Europe in 1942.
My point is that we should be allowed to donate money towards rebuilding Eastern Europe. I wouldn't give it to Hitler, but just because the situation was created through some process we disagree with (in this case Nazism), doesn't mean we should abandon the countries affected.
It's not so much the donating of money to rebuild Iraq, but honestly, the U.S. government asking for charitable donations and then refuseing to say what it is going towards? Stinks like a Neo-con scam to me.
It's all very vague and unclarified, and the fact that they won't say how the money will be used can only be interpreted as "we're going to use it for many projects that have little or nothing to do with the welfare of the Iraqis, and everything with contractors, oil installations, security (for contractors and oil installations), or even the funding of the Iraqi army or the purchase of weapons for all we know.
A far cry from donating to the Red Crescent or Medics Sans Frontières isn't it?
Let the US goverment and their mega rich friends in Halliburton & co foot the bill or whatever the hell they need. The US taxpayer will be the one having to pay for it all at the end of course, but at least they will have a clearer idea of how much money is being wasted and what on.
Yes but these charities don't build roads, or pipelines, or schools do they?
I personally have never heard of a charity that deals in rebuilding infrastructure (maybe there should be one?)
I am sure everyone agress that this work has to be done though, and in the absence of any nice charities to do it, it will have to be done by the evil corporations.
Unless you have a better idea?
The reports provided previously should be sufficient starting points for any who care to open their eyes to the extensive corruption being spearheaded by US administration corporate cronies since the occupation began.
Highly irregular to say the least. And breathtakingly cheeky I should add... The US government is not starved of money... they have enough money to pay for 16-lane motorways to cover every last square inch of Iraq 100 times over. They're simply asking for donations as a cynical attempt to hide out the full cost of the Iraq war to the taxpayer.
Oh dear, that's not right. The US government is flat broke. It has been for a generation. Having sold all it's gold, and then all the land and then all the people it's running out of stuff to give rapidly.
Even at that, all it's money is stolen. No "state" anywhere in the world has anything other than what it steals. They don't produce, only consume.
by all means give to the iraqi people to help them clean up this awful and illegal mess ...but for fucks sake ...surely you don't give the IRA donations so they can rebuild london?