Comments on: Iraq May Have $79B Budget Surplus

GAO Finds Oil Prices Bolstering Iraq's Treasury, As Some Ask Why U.S. Taxpayers Keep Supporting Reconstruction

[god-is-true]

I BELIEVE DA MEDIA.... I BELIEVE DA MEDIA... I BELIEVE THE MEDIA... I BELIEVE DA AHHHH WHAT DO I BELIEVE??? LET THE BRAIN WASHING BEGIN... The only one unaccountable for not telling the truth is the media

[emelder]

Above facts are verifiable on the Department of Defense web site. Posted by god-is-true at 09:30 AM

Yeah, we can certainly trust THEM for good information.

[emelder]

Did you know
That the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?


Posted by god-is-true at 09:29 AM

Did you know that over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since Bush and Cheney began this war on a string of lies.

[babooph]

How did the lobbyists miss stealing that pile??Must be the bribe $ for "support" for Bush.

[god-is-true]

Did you know
That 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a Televised debate recently?

OF COURSE WE DIDN''T KNOW! WHY DIDN''T WE KNOW?
BECAUSE OUR MEDIA WON''T TELL US!

Instead of reflecting our love for our country,
We get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraib And people throwing snowballs at the presidential motorcades.

Tragically, the lack of accentuating the positive In Iraq serves two purposes: It is intended to undermine the world''s perception
Of the United States thus minimizing consequent support; And it is intended to discourage American citizens.

Above facts are verifiable on the Department of Defense web site.

[god-is-true]

Did you know
That there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq; That produce over 3500 new officers every 8 weeks?

Did you know
There are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq? They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities And 69 electrical facilities.

Did you know
That 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5
Have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations?
Did you know
That 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October?
Did you know
That there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq And phone use has gone up 158%?

Did you know
That Iraq has an independent media that consists of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations?

Did you know
That the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?

[txlakeside]

Of course the Repubs will retract what they said .... they obviously lied about the war!

Scooter lied, Cheney Lied ... hmmm do''t you see a pattern! The repubs have lied about this whole war ... period! Shrub and Cheney should be impeached for outing an undercover agent (treason) and should be put in jail for allowing torture!

[god-is-true]

Did you know that 47 countries'' have
Reestablished their embassies in Iraq?

Did you know that the Iraqi government
Currently employs 1.2 million Iraqi people?

Did you know
That 3100 schools have been renovated,
364 schools are under rehabilitation,
263 new schools are now under construction;
And 38 new schools have been completed in Iraq ?





Did you know
That Iraq ''S higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers
All currently operating?


Did you know
That 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2005 for the re-established Fulbright program?

Did you know
That the Iraqi Navy is operational?
They have 5 - 100-foot patrol craft,
34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment.

Did you know
That Iraq '' S Air Force consists of three operational squadrons, Which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft
(under Iraqi operational control) which operate day and night, And will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers?

Did you knowThat Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?

Did you know
That the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000
Fully trained and equipped police officers?

[whyafghan]

Come on you cry baby freedom pounding Repubs .... tell us how we are needed there to protect our freedom and promote democracy down the throats of people who do not want democracy!
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Posted by txlakeside

Really. Wonder where you came up with your assessment that Iraqis do not want democracy? Is that your personal assessment when you were in Iraq or talked with Iraqis in country?
Probably not.

[mbcsmith]

HHHMMMMM, where''s the article about Suskind''s sources saying they never claimed Iraq docs fabricated. Yesterday, every news network trumpeted that Forged docs were created for Iraq invasion.
Today, those sources clearly indicated that author Suskind misrepresented them.


Yellow journalism at it''s best!

[txlakeside]

Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John Warner, R-Va., said Tuesday it is unfair for the United States to fund Iraqi reconstruction projects when an investigation found, among other things, that Iraq has spent only $3.9 billion on critical infrastructure while U.S. taxpayers have contributed $23.2 billion since 2003, The New York Times reported.

Come on you cry baby freedom pounding Repubs .... tell us how we are needed there to protect our freedom and promote democracy down the throats of people who do not want democracy!

Think how much safer this country could have been if we had actually spent this money protecting Americans instead of "CORPORATE WELFARE" for the oil CO''s!

This war was about oil $$$$$ and nothing less!

[tootall10142]

Every thing is about the price of oil gold diamonds and coal in that order.If zimbabwe had any oil we would already be there ousting that idiot. The biggest worry the iraqis have is short food supply so we shore up our farmers to be able to maintain a flow of staples that we will trade for oil on wholesale trade platform.This all takes time and a lot of mis information to keep OTHER profiteers from getting ahead of our harvest season.mark down what ive said here and and in six months reread it.

[txlakeside]

news .... I have been telling these repub idiots this for 4 years. The only good thing I saw about that story was the IRAQ''ies balking at anything longer than a years agreement. They know better than to trust the Oil CO''s that they kicked out 35 years ago.

Anyone who honestly thinks this war was about anything other than $$$$$$$ is just too stupid to vote the Repubs out!

Change is just about here!

[nothappyatall]

"
Here''''s a recent headline in The New York Times: "Deals with Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back." Read on: "Four western companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power."

There you have it. After a long exile, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, and BP are back in Iraq. And on the wings of no-bid contracts -- that''''s right, sweetheart deals such as those given Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater. The kind of deals you get only if you have friends in high places. And these war profiteers have friends in very high places."

Well what do you think many of us have been saying for YEARS was the case??? there you go, now some of the doubting nancys can shrink back and shut up- we were RIGHT about the REAL motives all along was about the OIL.

[micma-2009]

We''re not using the Iraqi''s money because they wouldn''t be stupid enough to pay for no bid contracts to Bush and Cheney''s friends.

[txlakeside]

US out of Iraq now, then the IRAQ''s can pay Blackwater to protect them, pay KBR to pump their oil and pay Pearson to build half completed public works. Heck, the IRAQ''s could not be much worse than we have been and it would be IRAQ money paying for the no bid scam contracts that are exposed each day!

That way we could focus on "Freedom Listening" (wiretaps) and "Freedom Housing" (corporate lending bailouts) and "Freedom Collections" (Americans paying for the debt the Repubs have saddled us with the last 8 years)

Then we can focus on "Freedom Conservation" (rape of the Oceans for oil $$$) and "Freedom Writing" (the bastarization of the Constitution)

[taotxzen]

The people of Iraq need to elect republicans, their taxes are obviously too high.

Posted by GOP_forever

They have already had a pretty good dose of two republicans, both Bushs.

[kennedy7955]

It seems to me that Iraq owes us a huge amount of money. No need to ask for it, just take it.

[taotxzen]

It Was Oil, All Along

%u2028by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn''t a war about oil. That''s cynical and simplistic, they said. It''s about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire, and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be....the bottom line. It is about oil.

Alan Greenspan said so last fall. The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, safely out of office, confessed in his memoir, "...Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." He elaborated in an interview with The Washington Post''s Bob Woodward, "If Saddam Hussein had been head of Iraq and there was no oil under those sands, our response to him would not have been as strong as it was in the first gulf war."

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[petro49l]

Iraq should invest the money in police science. They must consider the problem of Bin Laden. He actively purchases technical horticulture equipment and products to create exotic poppies. The opiate is mixed chemically to become a potent street heroin for sale all over the world. Osama swears that the drug will be very popular with Addicts. He hopes to gain an extreme amount of financial wealth from the illicit activity. The money will be used to bankroll terrorists.