Return to Article: Senator challenges State official on Iraq reconstruction
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All flow of U.S.A. money to Iraq should be stopped until the country is at peace. This will not happen because it could deprive the President's and VP's friends of money. Why would anyone in their right mind try to rebuild a country during a war? We didn't rebuild Europe until the war ended and then we didn't rebuild anything in the Russian zones. We didn't try to rebuild VN during the war. The Union didn't rebuild the Confederacy until after the war.
The U.S.A. should not be rebuilding countries until we know who wins the wars! America has not won a war since WWII and should stop all rebuilding until there is peace. This country shouldn't be rewarding those at war but should spend our money on those at peace. We should support peace, not war!
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The story states: "As President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced two weeks ago, the teams are intended to work on the kinds of local projects that can win the 'hearts and minds' of Iraqi citizens." The only thing on the "hearts and minds of Iraqi citizens" is killing one another, depending on their religious persuasion. Spending more U.S. tax dollars on rebuilding in Iraq, until the Iraqis have learned to live together peacefully, is to flush money down the drain, and place an undue burden on our children and our children's children. The only teams that should be placed into Iraq now or in the future should be highly armed military teams that are dispatched to cordon off and guard the oil fields and pipelines, and when sufficient amounts of oil have been pumped out which offset the current costs of this boondoggle of King George's war the he has involved us in, we should then withdraw to the borders and let the Sunnis and Shiites go at one another until a winner emerges. That won't happen -- but it should!
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