[lbo-talk] Someone asked about Hitchens...

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Didn't ya hear -- Rummy says we don't have to pay for
fixing Irq b/c it was broke when we got there.
Apparently 30 years of Stalinist central planning,
etc., had left the Iraqis with no running water or
electricity ever. No one noticed this, of course, but
evidently the US bombing just made pre-existing rubble
bounce,a nd there was nothing to be harmed by our
neglect. I am not, as Dave Barry says, making this up.
jks


> 
> As for that bill of 87 billion... well, I'm upset
> about it, but there's 
> actually a kind of justice to it. The U.S. supported
> Saddam Hussein for 
> decades, and it seems right that the U.S. had to pay
> to take him out. Of 
> course, this bill doesn't get charged to the people
> who benefitted the 
> most from that relationship... but perhaps that's
> the price Americans 
> wind up paying for letting creeps like the Bushes
> gain power. (After 
> all, we are nominally a democracy. And if one argues
> that Osama's the 
> blowback from this country's foreign policy, then
> one ought to consider 
> that Bush is the blowback for our nation's
> collective ignorance and 
> apathy.) Perhaps that's one argument that ought to
> be raised; get these 
> creeps out of office so they can take some
> responsibility, and we don't 
> have to pay their fuckin' bills anymore.
> 
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