Posted on 02/17/2011 7:28:45 AM PST by listenhillary
(Reuters) - Iraq's capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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 U.S. forces changed this beautiful city to a camp in an ugly and destructive way, which reflected deliberate ignorance and carelessness about the simplest forms of public taste," the statement said.
"Due to the huge damage, leading to a loss the Baghdad municipality cannot afford...we demand the American side apologize to Baghdad's people and pay back these expenses."
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And I want them to pay $1 Trillion for the freedom we obtained for them.
So what?
They should join a Wisconsin teachers union.
This is hugely offensive. These people hate us, always have, and always will. They regard our toppling of Saddam as an illegal invasion and our presence there as a religious and political offense. Our job is done, we should leave and not return...and tell them where to put their billion dollar demands.
Well I admit you have a point, but I certanialy hope you can see a glimmer of mine...
They owe us more than we owe them by a factor of x,000.
OK?
And bill them for the cost of the GULF WAR to free the Kuwaitis from their unbridled aggression.
This is so absurd that they are asking us for reparations and it’s ONLY because they know we’re stuck with a weak “Sympathizer in Chief”
Bingo.
They act like muslimes everywhere. Think that us infidels
owe them and they never take any responsibility for any of
the mess that results from worshiping a corrupt ungodly
Allah.
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