Years and thousands of lives after invasion, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has just released a new message to the people of Iraq:
Rebuild your OWN damn country.
From the BBC:
A senior US government auditor has called for American funding of Iraqi reconstruction projects to end.
Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, said Iraq was likely to earn more than $70bn (£35bn) in oil revenues in 2008.
This, he said, meant the government was capable of funding reconstruction projects itself.
This is absolutely abominable. A country invades another country in violation of international law, bombs the crap out of it, executes its president, brings corruption and mercenaries who are above the law and when they can’t do much more damage they turn around and say “Now it’s up to you to repair the damage we’ve done.”
It doesn’t matter to him that the money has been wasted because of Bush cronies crowding around to cream off the money. It doesn’t matter to him that the corruption is due to no-bid contracts awarded to crooks and liars such as Halliburton, KBR and Blackwater. All that matters to him is that Iraq’s oil revenue should be used to repair the damage.
Newsflash – you bomb a country illegally, it’s your responsibility to fix the damage. How the hell does he get to say it’s now all Iraq’s fault? The poor Iraqi people have been kicked when they are down so much, I’m not surprised they want to not reknew the US mandate to stay in their country.
Sadly you couldn’t make this crap up
But I just find it co-incidental…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the planes back when Iraqi officials sought to reclaim them, according to a congressional committee investigating the private security contractor.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wants the company to provide all documents related to the attempted shipment and to explain where the aircraft are now.
In a letter sent Friday to Erik Prince, Blackwater’s top executive, Waxman said he learned of the 2005 attempt from a military official who contacted the committee. That official is not identified in the letter, nor is the type of aircraft.
Now, does anyone remember what happened back in 2005? Billions of dollars was flown into Iraq, stacked neatly on pallets. Would it not be rational to assume that at least some of those pallets were flown elsewhere for “distribution”?
So how is this for a scenario. Blackwater find out this money is going to come into Iraq, but it will be guarded by US Troops at its arrival point, so they discover where two aircraft are going to be taken that have some of that money on board. Then when those aircraft land, they’re hijacked by Blackwater staff and spirited away – money and all.
Is this beyond the scope of what Blackwater might do? Maybe. But two military planes are missing, and the reason has yet to be determined. I will be following this story with great interest, since the timing is about right.
This story is a LONG way from finished…