Michael O'Hanlon and John McCain may be bullish about America's prospects in Iraq, but Carl Levin and John Warner want to know why so much of Iraq's oil money is in offshore banks rather than being invested in the costly business of running the country. Swopa offers one obvious possibility -- they're stashing billions in foreign banks to prepare to go back into exile when things collapse over there.
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11 Mar 2008 01:41 pm
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Oh, why would they do that, Matt? I hear from some of your commenters below that 53% of the American public thinks we're winning in Iraq! Don't the people allegedly "running" the country agree?
Not necessarily permanent exile. Strikes me more as a realistic admission that Iraq as a country will not continue to exist and those with power over the funds are setting themselves up as the first leaders of the new states. It's a clear message that there is no will or faith left in those in power to be a country.
"Oh, why would they do that, Matt?"
Maybe because they don't America's commitment to helping to stabilize their country, since a major political party's candidates are competing with each other over who will bail out of Iraq first.
That's a really neat excuse for embezzlement and grand theft, Juan! The Democrats made them do it!! I love it.
Look, if a bunch of thieves is the best we could do for so-called "leaders" of the Iraq "democracy," we've surely lost the peace there. It's the Iraqi "leaders," the very guys Bush has been backing, preparing to cut and run, and don't you forget it. Our policy has been to give them a chance, they've had a few years of us paying thousands of lives and billions of dollars, and all they've managed to do is to illegally feather their nests. Unless you think that McCain is right, that we will have to make a colony of Iraq and stay there 100 years, we're leaving some day, and those Iraqi "leaders" are telling you what's going to happen when we do.
We'll I'd personally feel much better if we found out that Bush and a whole bunch of other *American* leaders in DC had stashed lots of their money into secret overseas bank accounts because they felt they'd probably have to go into exile as well in the very near future.
And it anyway wouldn't really help them much, since we'd just eventually catch them and then torture them (and their families) into revealing all those secret bank account numbers...
"And it anyway wouldn't really help them much, since we'd just eventually catch them and then torture them (and their families) into revealing all those secret bank account numbers..."
Yeah, you and Greg Cochran, RKU. Which one of you is going to bring the nipple clamps?
It is a truism that in some respects it's more dangerous to be an ally of the US than an enemy. The current debate here can't be particularly reassuring in terms of our long-term committment to supporting them, so why shouldn't they try to create a buffer?
Powell is an idiot.
The reality is that while they're trying to hang on as long as possible to their power, they know as well as anyone that there are only two alternatives in Iraq:
1) Collapse to a failed state in a more or less permanent civil war similar to Lebanon in the 80's.
2) Form a nationalist coalition which will kick out the incumbents - and the US - probably bloodily.
This is no third alternative, and everybody with a brain can see that.
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