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It's not the city garbage man that voiced the complaint. It's the city mayor and city councillors who don't have the budget to clean up the mess.
The article mentions the words of ONE man. It doesn't even say he was speaking on anyone's behalf.
They don't have the budget?
They are selling oil to the entire world and the profits are staying in Iraq.
Maybe they just need Obama in charge as a community organizer and to be their go to guy on the budgeting since he's obviously so adept at budgetary planning?
So ONE guy in ONE city is speaking for an ENTIRE nation now according to the OP???
That is a solid point, but on the other hand their have been other stories about how unhappy the Iraqi people are. Yes, their country is a mess but the U S has handed them money for schools,hospitals and infrastructure.
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The U.S. has spent more than $45 billion on rebuilding Iraq. And while officials in Iraq contend that much progress is being made, many projects remain unfinished and U.S. troops are still needed to provide security.
And while our broke ass was spending 45 billion that was borrowed :
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Last week, Sens. Carl Levin, a Democrat, and John Warner, a Republican, asked GAO to investigate what Iraq is doing with its oil revenue. The senators estimated that Iraq will realize "at least $100 billion in oil revenues in 2007 and 2008."
The article mentions the words of ONE man. It doesn't even say he was speaking on anyone's behalf.
The city's government issued its demands in a statement on Wednesday that said Baghdad's infrastructure and aesthetics have been seriously damaged by the American military.
The heavy blast walls have damaged sewer and water systems, pavement and parks, said Hakeem Abdul Zahra, the city spokesman.
As we are all aware of the trillion dollars that we have spent spreading democracy in freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan this is the thanks that we get:
Baghdad wants U.S. to pay $1 billion for damage to city - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110217/wl_nm/us_iraq_usa_damages - broken link)
There you go, thanks for giving us democracy and freedom now pay for the damages so we do not have to do any of the lifting. Sad part is our brain dead leaders will probally give it to them. I mean while our infrastructure needs upgraded we have to look out for Iraq, we broke it so we have to fix it.
But then again maybe we won't and the Iraqi's will do us a huge favor and kick every single troop out of their country.
At least they are not asking for the medical bills plus pain and suffering for all the people exposed and killed by DU on top of rebuilding costs . Man what kind of bill that would be
So long as there is a risk of the Iraqi, Afghani and Central Asia petroleum being sold outside of OPEC we will remain anywhere we are "needed". The Iraqi elites are getting ever richer off our tax money so they just want us to spend more. Talk about a “welfare class”. They have gone beyond and are now “The Thieves of Baghdad.”
About 60 years ago we should have started drilling at home and all the money we spent on every dictator and puppet government and the lives we have lost never would have happened.
Again LIMITED GOVERNMENT not big enough to run the world and people's lives at home saves ourselves from the crazy few power seekers!!!! Those with the UN thinking, military controlling, NEOCON, Great Society types!
Cant do that with a low taxed, limited government who follows the idea that liberty and freedom start with small government.
As we are all aware of the trillion dollars that we have spent spreading democracy in freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan this is the thanks that we get:
Baghdad wants U.S. to pay $1 billion for damage to city - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110217/wl_nm/us_iraq_usa_damages - broken link)
There you go, thanks for giving us democracy and freedom now pay for the damages so we do not have to do any of the lifting. Sad part is our brain dead leaders will probally give it to them. I mean while our infrastructure needs upgraded we have to look out for Iraq, we broke it so we have to fix it.
But then again maybe we won't and the Iraqi's will do us a huge favor and kick every single troop out of their country.
Isn't it Mike Huckabee, a conservative favorite, who kept saying during the primaries "You break it, you bought it" in reference to Iraq?
I'd say it applies in this case.
And I doubt it looks like democracy and freedom in the rubble of Baghdad steets but I don't suppose empathy is one of your strength.
The Baghdad city government is demanding that the United States pay $1 billion and apologize for damage to the city caused by blast walls erected during the nearly eight-year long war (http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_17412257 - broken link)
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the local government says U.S. forces had marred the "beautiful city."
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City officials want an official apology and $1 billion to pay for the damage.
I think we should............present them with a bill for; saving kuwait from iraq, defeating al qaeda in bagdad, and getting rid of good ol' saddam.
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Baghdad demands $1B from US over war damages
