Baghdad wants U.S. to pay $1 billion for damage to city
 

Are they out of their FUCKING mind....Fuck them & their country..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110217/...aq_usa_damages

have family serving there as I type, wish it would just end. At least my cousin in Afghanistan came home after a full year out there!

The sure have embraced the american way ...

Thank god the US liberated Iraq. That sure made everything better, and the Iraqis are definitely better off for it.

PS. Of course the US should bear responsibility for damage caused by the US military.

Well its just the city gov't saying that.

Talk about an expensive party :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Yea ..... right.


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Colin Powel told George Bush its like Pottery Barn , you break it you bought it. They didnt ask us to come in.

I can see their point.

BTW, $1 billion is pocket lint. It's actually kind of funny they asked for so little.

Why not ?

Did you guys force Iraq to pay back the damage of the few week Kuwait Invasion ?

or before Germany for WW2 ?

Nobody asked you to go there, you just invaded , unproved...

AS for Powell, here is what he says today, after the sucker game played :

That question is just rethorical, as we all know that it was hidden to allow a family vengeance orchestrated by none other then the US president.


So yes : You broke it, you pay for it .


Now Rangermoore, go assassinate other non-white civilians :321GFY

actually i think there is some international law saying if you invade a country you must pay to have things rebuilt you destroyed.. could be wrong though

Damn. Mud has gotten expensive.

germany has been paying installments on reparations for WW1 since it happened , infact they just finished paying the last payment a few months ago

Damage to walls is not good. Different soldiers from any side can claim beautiful walls.

what's a billion dollars between friends, it is not like we have dumped hundreds of billions there already or anything

Sure, no problem. We'll gladly pay for everyone.

But first, Iraq needs to pay back the US for everything we've spent there. This should include the original incident in 1991, when the US was called on to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Iraq needs to pay the US for all of the money we spent on salaries for every serviceman and woman who served in that battle, plus all benefits paid out those wounded and to the families who lost loved ones. Then they can replace us for the ammunition we used, wear and tear on the equipment, cost of fuel to transport everything to the area plus the fuel spent during the battle, etc etc etc.

Then, we can do it all over again for the second battle.

For your info, IRAQ was paying back from the oil...
As for the Gulf war of 1991 , US paid in fact very little... :

Around US$36 billion of the US$60 billion cost was paid by Saudi Arabia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War


.. and that war had definitively more ground to it then the US invasion ...

as well as :

Although they did not contribute any forces, Japan and Germany made financial contributions totaling $10 billion and $6.6 billion respectively

The US should pay for all damages, including money to families of the 100s of 1000s of innocent civilians they murdered.

According to the Paris Peace Treaties, 1947, Italy agreed to pay reparations of about US$125 million to Yugoslavia, US$105 million to Greece, US$100 million to the Soviet Union, US$25 million to Ethiopia, and US$5 million to Albania. Finland agreed to pay reparations of US$300 million to the Soviet Union. Hungary agreed to pay reparations of US$200 million to the Soviet Union, US$100 million to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Romania agreed to pay reparations of US$300 million to the Soviet Union. Bulgaria agreed to pay reparations of $50 million to Greece and $25 million to Yugoslavia. According to the articles of these treaties, the value of US$ was prescribed as 35 US dollars to one troy ounce of pure gold.

After the Gulf War, Iraq accepted United Nations Security Council resolution 687, which declared Iraq's financial liability for damage caused in its invasion of Kuwait. The United Nations Compensation Commission ("UNCC") was established, and US$350 billion in claims were filed by governments, corporations, and individuals. Funds for these payments were to come from a 30% share of Iraq's oil revenues from the oil for food program. I

Some people obviously need to learn some history!

The U.S. already did fuck them and their country. That is why they want the $1 bn. :2 cents:

"when in search of the truth, show no mercy and expect none in return" - Dr Hunter S Thompson

Most of the Middle East is proof that international law doesn't mean much.

umm iraq paid over 350 billion dollars for the kuwait invasion

Fuck bagdad :321GFY:321GFY

any examples ?

most of the laws broken in the middle east have been by americans and american funded countries. Israel has broken more international laws than any other country .

We have our own problems here we should be dealing with. Lets be clear , iraq never attacked us , never had nukes , never had wmd's . Much like if the police broke into the wrong house , if they broke shit , they should pay for it.

Nation Building.

You asked for it you got it, Toyota!

1 billion worth of mud walls?

Yep, dem dare oil rigs is a made of da mud.
Ya reckon?

idiot ....

Just give me the names and address and I will send them a check....



Give me your address and I can take care of that..

That's why I stopped taking contracts to iraq a few years ago, all the fun was gone... now it's Afghanistan there is still some fun to be had there..for a few more years at least...

We have been repairing shit for years. Why would we stop now? It will happen.

Now I just LOL'd

Go BadDog, Be ALL you Can Be :thumbsup

Ok deal, but they got to pay us back for the couple trillion we spent liberating their asses.

Fucking morons, are the walls not made of mud? It's their primary building material, shit for brains........

That's actually quite funny when I think about it. :1orglaugh

Look at what the Washington post says the cost of the Iraq war is :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...090302200.html

PS : We could easily pay that $1 Billion by taking it out of the $X Billions per
year that we send to Israel. :2 cents:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T9oeNkDLyh...2520Edited.gif

Seriously who cares. Hopefully the dumb asses in DC just ignore it. But the way things work they will probably send them 2 billion.