i’ve been hearing a lot of news stories over the past couple of days, on television, and online about how the US taxpayer is paying to rebuild Iraq even though Iraq has billions of dollars in its own coffers that it could easily spend to rebuild itself. We have been “over there” longer than reason would dictate because Iraq seems to be unable to defend itself, yet we are the ones paying for it. It would seem logical to me that until Iraq DOES stand up for itself, that it should AT LEAST be paying our expenses for standing up FOR them. Especially since we are not getting any kind of price break on oil coming out of there!

This is an absurd situation. They don’t need our financial help, but we are spending money on having our troops over there and we are spending money rebuilding their country while our own roads and bridges deteriorate. There is something VERY WRONG with this picture!