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(MSNBC) Stupid Billions of dollars used to rebuild Iraq is just money wasted   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 77
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Mentat [TotalFark]
2010-08-29 06:46:19 PM
That's not true. Lots of people benefited. Haliburton, Blackwater, DyneCorp, Triple Canopy, KBR, BP, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, Betchel...
 
NutWrench
2010-08-29 07:31:18 PM
Yeah and you can't put a price on free-DUM!
 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark]
2010-08-29 07:40:56 PM
Just another example of Iraq HUSSEIN Falalalalujahbama's failed stimulus package.
 
zerkalo
2010-08-29 10:31:02 PM
Not just wasted, but fabulously wasted
 
thrgd456
2010-08-29 10:31:32 PM
Ok, so wasting billions, probably hundreds of billions of dollars ISN'T crazier than the TEA Party?

You guys need to get with us...
 
MFAWG
2010-08-29 10:34:10 PM
Obvious tag too drunk to show up?
 
joonyer
2010-08-29 10:34:37 PM
No wai! We spent moneys in Iraq?! Doesn't that add to teh derficit?

What'd we get for it?
 
RavynWiald
2010-08-29 10:35:52 PM
Duh.
 
deeproy
2010-08-29 10:36:22 PM
www.reyonthehill.com
 
miltonbabbitt
2010-08-29 10:38:11 PM
No shiat.

I've always wondered what America would be like now if all of that money was put into transparent border security - the kind that doesn't involve a cavity search to board an airplane.
 
Egalitarian [TotalFark]
2010-08-29 10:39:54 PM
This is a surprise? We've known about exorbitant sums of money being flushed down the toilet there, for years.

The Iraqi war seems to be boiling down to a) oil and b) a way to funnel taxpayer money to Bush admin cronies. How come Tea Party types don't yell and scream about their money being taken away and given to Halliburton execs?
 
s1ugg0
2010-08-29 10:40:02 PM
NO SH*T!
 
pippi longstocking
2010-08-29 10:42:18 PM
What's stupid is that the author confuses billions with trillions.
 
I_Hate_Iowa
2010-08-29 10:45:29 PM
Here's Palin's take on it:

www.majhost.com

When even she thinks America is doing something wrong, you know someone farked up big time.
 
piglet
2010-08-29 10:47:10 PM
Mentat: That's not true. Lots of people benefited. Haliburton, Blackwater, DyneCorp, Triple Canopy, KBR, BP, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, Betchel...

I came here to say the same thing. Apparently, I'm curently neither fast or eloquent.
 
crab66
2010-08-29 10:49:22 PM
Wasting money rebuilding other countries is the highest form of patriotic.
 
meat0918
2010-08-29 10:50:18 PM
I_Hate_Iowa: Here's Palin's take on it:



When even she thinks America is doing something wrong, you know someone farked up big time.

No, it's trying to pass the buck. Obama has continued it, but the bulk of the waste is Bush projects. It's a transparent attempt to blame him for it all.

//How many "non-combat" troops are still there?
 
zarberg
2010-08-29 10:51:37 PM
miltonbabbitt: No shiat.

I've always wondered what America would be like now if all of that money was put into transparent border security - the kind that doesn't involve a cavity search to board an airplane.

Or if we spent on the money that we've spent on Iraq on say ... alternative fuel sources. Or better infrastructure for this country. Or better public transit everywhere.

Seriously, we send thousands to die over there, they kill tens of thousands, and yet we're still ok with some of the biggest donations to politicians being oil companies?
 
Mentat [TotalFark]
2010-08-29 10:55:20 PM
piglet: Mentat: That's not true. Lots of people benefited. Haliburton, Blackwater, DyneCorp, Triple Canopy, KBR, BP, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, Betchel...

I came here to say the same thing. Apparently, I'm curently neither fast or eloquent.

Don't sweat it. I was outed as a frothing left-wing troll today, so I'm usually in a good position to jump the thread early.
 
Hobodeluxe [TotalFark]
2010-08-29 10:55:35 PM
old news is old. I said it would be a waste before it even got started.
 
vabeard
2010-08-29 11:00:19 PM
Mentat: That's not true. Lots of people benefited. Haliburton, Blackwater, DyneCorp, Triple Canopy, KBR, BP, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, Betchel...

And all the expenditures that Sen Levin asked for, and urged Pelosi, Reid, and everyone else to vote for.
 
Corvus
2010-08-29 11:03:54 PM
Obama wasting money on stimulus OUTRAGE!!!

Oh forget all that money Bushed wasted...
 
Rashnu
2010-08-29 11:04:08 PM
Didn't help that our post invasion plans were apparently actually predicated on the "greeted as liberators" idiocy. Shot ourselves in the foot from the get-go. Widespread looting and the complete dissolution of the baathists with no apparent strategy to protect and maintain critical infrastructure and institutions. Plus, I'm pretty sure the war planners honestly didn't know that Shias and Sunnis were different sects with deep-seated enmities. We suck at nation-building.
 
The Name
2010-08-29 11:04:14 PM
Yeah, you tend to waste a lot of money when the people on whom you are spending it only want to blow up what you've built.
 
Corvus
2010-08-29 11:05:07 PM
joonyer: No wai! We spent moneys in Iraq?! Doesn't that add to teh derficit?

What'd we get for it?

No when Republicans do it, it magically doesn't count.
 
relaxitsjustme [TotalFark]
2010-08-29 11:07:12 PM
Freedom isn't free.

/fark Dick & George
 
FormlessOne
2010-08-29 11:07:22 PM
thrgd456: Ok, so wasting billions, probably hundreds of billions of dollars ISN'T crazier than the TEA Party?

You guys need to get with us...

I'd just be happy if we could find the billions "misplaced" by Bremer, the Pentagon, and so on. We keep screaming that we have no money for our domestic infrastructure, yet we actually "misplaced" $8,800 million - in some cases, we wrote multiple-million-dollar Treasury checks to contractors without a single scrap of evidence as to the purpose of the check. We handed out hundreds of millions of dollars, in cash, to Iraqi ministries, warlords, and so on, again with nothing more than, at best, a signature to explain for what this money was to be used.
 
ComatoseB0nerToes
2010-08-29 11:07:32 PM
I_Hate_Iowa: Here's Palin's take on it:

When even she thinks America is doing something wrong, you know someone farked up big time.

she doesnt think - just does random shiate like a geyser

At least Obama started the pull out - maybe by 2020 we will finish
 
vabeard
2010-08-29 11:09:20 PM
Corvus: joonyer: No wai! We spent moneys in Iraq?! Doesn't that add to teh derficit?

What'd we get for it?

No when Republicans do it, it magically doesn't count.

what about the Democrats who also voted for those expenditures?
 
Pope George Ringo
2010-08-29 11:10:39 PM
The Federal Reserve was just going to shred those worn-out $20 bills they used for wall insulation over there anyway.
 
Needlessly Complicated
2010-08-29 11:13:38 PM
"Obvious" tag found dead in its apartment hanging from a noose with a half-empty bottle of Xanax strewn on the floor.
 
EmployeeOfTheMinute
2010-08-29 11:16:42 PM
Bocanegra: Good job, Fartbama.

This
 
heinekenftw
2010-08-29 11:17:00 PM
whar is obvious tag? whar?
 
heinekenftw
2010-08-29 11:18:40 PM
miltonbabbitt: No shiat.

I've always wondered what America would be like now if all of that money was put into transparent border security - the kind that doesn't involve a cavity search to board an airplane.

I kinda hope we don't have any terrorist hide explosives in their ass. Because if they do, that's where the TSA will be probing next . . .
 
joethebastard
2010-08-29 11:20:25 PM
vabeard: what about the Democrats who also voted for those expenditures?

Nobody should vote for them either.
 
whatshisname
2010-08-29 11:22:17 PM
But think of all the peace and freedom you've given the people of Iraq.
 
Opposite
2010-08-29 11:30:56 PM
The only reason it is money wasted is because we are LEAVING TOO EARLY.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2010-08-29 11:32:34 PM
meat0918: I_Hate_Iowa: Here's Palin's take on it:



When even she thinks America is doing something wrong, you know someone farked up big time.

No, it's trying to pass the buck. Obama has continued it, but the bulk of the waste is Bush projects. It's a transparent attempt to blame him for it all.

//How many "non-combat" troops are still there?

No, ALL of the waste is Bush projects. ALL of it. When they sent in the "Coalition Provisional Authority" made up of Paul "Jerry" Bremer and his corps of twentysomething Heritage Foundation-approved MBA grads with no experience in running a toilet, much less an occupied country...THAT'S where all the money was wasted.

There are stories, confirmed by the dingalings who were doing it, of the kids at the CPA tossing around shrink-wrapped bundles of cash, playing football with thousands of taxpayer dollars in their neat little offices, because they didn't have the first idea where it was supposed to go, or what they were expected to do with it.

Any money lost since then was lost simply because the foundation was never there to begin with. Like those apartments in China, that were ten stories tall but had two-foot foundations, they just fell over as a unit. Well, the US never bothered to lay any foundations in Iraq in 2003-4, so all the money since went into building a huge tall tower...that collapsed into the dust. And it is 100% Bush's fault, him and his cronies that "don't do nation-building." All Obama could be expected to do was calculate the loss.
 
vabeard
2010-08-29 11:34:54 PM
Corvus: joonyer: No wai! We spent moneys in Iraq?! Doesn't that add to teh derficit?

What'd we get for it?

No when Republicans do it, it magically doesn't count.

I guess all those Democrat votes magically don't count either. Do you ever look at the votes of both parties, or just regurgitate your talking points?
 
HamSlammer
2010-08-29 11:36:32 PM
Iraq: Thank you for the multi-billion dollars in aid money. With the billions we make off oil sales we can take your billions and...blow it all on hats.
 
Cream of Meat
2010-08-29 11:40:33 PM
Well it was about time we created a new set of multi-billionaires. I mean, you didn't think the rich in this country actually worked hard for it do you.
 
Obnox
2010-08-29 11:47:54 PM
joonyer: No wai! We spent moneys in Iraq?! Doesn't that add to teh derficit?

What'd we get for it?

I'm told the piles of flowers the grateful natives threw at us were boxed up, put on pallets, and loaded into planes, filling 37 C-5s to the brim. Once the planes reached altitude, the flower petals spontaneously turned into unicorns and flew away. The end.
 
SnatchTease
2010-08-29 11:58:48 PM
How about the BILLIONS IN CASH OF THEIRS WE LOST (new window) that was meant to rebuild
 
IamTomJoad
2010-08-30 12:04:28 AM
If you look at it as WMD's found per dollar it makes it look A LOT better.
 
dstrick44
2010-08-30 12:19:40 AM
Egalitarian 2010-08-29 10:39:54 PM
This is a surprise? We've known about exorbitant sums of money being flushed down the toilet there, for years.

The Iraqi war seems to be boiling down to a) oil and b) a way to funnel taxpayer money to Bush admin cronies. How come Tea Party types don't yell and scream about their money being taken away and given to Halliburton execs?

Because rich people create jobs. JOBS.
 
InteriorDesignNinja
2010-08-30 12:35:25 AM
It's patriotism when we do it there, but socialism when we do it here.

Go figure.
 
Shamwow
2010-08-30 12:36:52 AM
FormlessOne: thrgd456: Ok, so wasting billions, probably hundreds of billions of dollars ISN'T crazier than the TEA Party?

You guys need to get with us...

I'd just be happy if we could find the billions "misplaced" by Bremer, the Pentagon, and so on. We keep screaming that we have no money for our domestic infrastructure, yet we actually "misplaced" $8,800 million - in some cases, we wrote multiple-million-dollar Treasury checks to contractors without a single scrap of evidence as to the purpose of the check. We handed out hundreds of millions of dollars, in cash, to Iraqi ministries, warlords, and so on, again with nothing more than, at best, a signature to explain for what this money was to be used.

If republicans want to show their interest in financial responsibility they should start checking out the fraud committed during the war.

/Would love to see either side show a back bone and start a Truman Commission for all the wasted money
 
Shamwow
2010-08-30 12:37:43 AM
dstrick44: Egalitarian 2010-08-29 10:39:54 PM
This is a surprise? We've known about exorbitant sums of money being flushed down the toilet there, for years.

The Iraqi war seems to be boiling down to a) oil and b) a way to funnel taxpayer money to Bush admin cronies. How come Tea Party types don't yell and scream about their money being taken away and given to Halliburton execs?

Because rich people create jobs. JOBS.

Give me 50 million and I will gladly help create jobs.
 
rnld
2010-08-30 12:40:26 AM
The war will pay for itself.
 
catzies
2010-08-30 12:43:38 AM
Hobodeluxe: old news is old. I said it would be a waste before it even got started.

This. And I'm already against the next war.

/that's my new favorite bumper sticker
 
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