Its not about money or oil.

The Math:

$12,500 for Victims in Blackwater Incident is:

$12,500USD X 27,499,638 (population of Iraq) is:

343 Billion Dollars

Iraq Oil is worth $90 X 112 Billion barrels:

10 trillion dollars!

Therefore:

Iraqi oil is worth 29 times more than the entire Iraqi population.

Maybe they should insist on payment in EURO ...

Billion and Billions!


Report: Most of $1.2 billion to train Iraqi police unaccounted for ...

Delays in Supporting our Troops?

The delays in submitting the remaining war funding request were in part due to unease among congressional Republicans about receiving it during the veto override battle involving a popular bill reauthorizing a children's health insurance program. ...

Playing politics with troop's & children's health?

Finally a Democrat with big ones!

Exactly!

Answer: Because the Democrats suck.

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More Iraqi Progress

Oil Futures Hit New Record Above $86 ...

Winning Hearts and Minds

Soldiers found no evidence gunmen fired on Blackwater ...

Supporting the Troops???

The 2600 members of a Minnesota National Guard unit that returned from Iraq in July after serving there longer than any other ground combat unit were shocked to be told that their total time overseas of 729 days was one day short of the number needed to be eligible for expanded educational benefits under the GI Bill. Many of the soldiers wondered if this was done deliberately and they and Minnesota's senators asked the Secretary of the Army to look into it. ...

Is she a Dick?

COULTER: If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. ...