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Rorabacher- Iraq should pay back US for costs of war

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My looney RW Congressman takes crazy to a new level:

"BAGHDAD -- A U.S. congressman visiting Baghdad Friday suggested that Iraq pay back the United States for the money it has spent in the eight years since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher spoke during a one-day visit by a group of six U.S. congressman. The California Republican said he raised the suggestion during a meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that some day when Iraq is a "prosperous" nation it pay back the U.S. for everything that it has done here.

"We would hope that some consideration be given to repaying the United States some of the megadollars we have spent here in the last eight years," Rohrabacher told reporters at the U.S. Embassy after the meeting.

He did not say what reaction, if any, the prime minister had to the suggestion."

Didn't he and other Republicans say the war would pay for itself? How did that work out?
 
That's pretty laughable. Maybe we should send a bill to France and Britain for helping out in WWII. Let's go ahead and send South Vietnam a bill, too.
 
Iraqi PM-... Guys. guys... Relax. We totally got you. Don't worry about it

Some of our representatives are lol bad, even if they have calculated reasons for making these statements.
 
And If Iraq can become a stable Middle Eastern Democracy that maintains strong ties with the United States I would say that is the best payback we can ever hope to receive.
 
Wait what? I thought we were already square financially!


"Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will."
Richard Perle, chair
The Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
July 11, 2002


"The likely economic effects [of a war in Iraq] would be relatively small.... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits."
Lawrence Lindsey
White House economic adviser
September 16, 2002


"It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars."
Kenneth Pollack
former director for Persian Gulf affairs
National Security Council
September 2002


"The costs of any intervention would be very small."
Glenn Hubbard
White House economic adviser
October 4, 2002


"Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction."
Ari Fleischer
White House press secretary
February 18, 2003


"When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community."
Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
March 27, 2003


"There is a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be US taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people. We are talking about a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon."
Paul Wolfowitz
Deputy Secretary of Defense
testifying before the defense subcommittee
of the House Appropriations Committee
March 27, 2003


"The United States is very committed to helping Iraq recover from the conflict, but Iraq will not require sustained aid."
Mitchell Daniels, director
White House Office of Management and Budget
April 21, 2003
 
BTTT, I find these quotes fascinating.
 
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