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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:37 PM
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Poll question: POLL: Should we pay for what we blew up in Iraq?
I was reading Dennis Kucinich's plan for Iraq, and that particular item jumped out at me, and I felt it would make a good poll question. Should we pay for what we blew up?

Here is his plan for getting out of Iraq:

1. The United States must ask the United Nations to manage the oil assets of Iraq until the Iraqi people are self-governing.
2. The United Nations must handle all the contracts: No more Halliburton sweetheart deals, No contracts to Bush Administration insiders, No contracts to campaign contributors. All contracts must be awarded under transparent conditions.

3. The United States must renounce any plans to privatize Iraq. It is illegal under both the Geneva and the Hague Conventions for any nation to invade another nation, seize its assets, and sell those assets. The Iraqi people, and the Iraqi people alone must have the right to determine the future of their country's resources.
4. The United States must ask the United Nations to handle the transition to Iraqi self-governance. The UN must be asked to help the Iraqi people develop a Constitution. The UN must assist in developing free and fair elections.
5. The United States must agree to pay for what we blew up.
6. The United States must pay reparations to the families of innocent Iraqi civilian noncombatants killed and injured in the conflict.
7. The United States must contribute financially to the UN peacekeeping mission.
8. The United Nations, through its member nations, will commit 130,000 peacekeepers to Iraq on a temporary basis until the Iraqi people can maintain their own security.
9. UN troops will rotate into Iraq, and all U.S. troops will come home.
10. The United States will abandon policies of "preemption" and unilateralism and commit to strengthening the UN.


http://www.kucinich.us/issues/bringourtroopshome.php
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:39 PM
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1. Hell no!
The corporations who profited and jacked up charges to our military should pay!
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:41 PM
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2. I'm with you, wildbill
Tax Halliburton back to the fuckin stone age.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:42 PM
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3. We can do that given the choices in the poll, in my opinion.
We pay the Iraqis.

Nobody said how we got the money. Taxing the rich is one of the ways to pay for it.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:30 PM
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5. Agreed 100%
W broke it, let his corporate profiteers pay the costs.
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Gatchaman Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:52 PM
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4. Fat chance of any of this actually happening
This would be an admission that we "lost" the war, although we would be getting off a lot easier than most agressor nations do.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:32 PM
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6. Other:
There is no "we" anymore. Let the people who started this war pay.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:34 PM
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7. Called war reparations
and they include the corporations who should surrender their horrendous profits to the recontruction efforts in TWO countries... (Iraq is obivous, but the US needs a lot of work too)
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:35 PM
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8. What are we gonna pay for it with?
Hyperinflated dollars? Borrowed Chinese money? I think both the US and Iraq are screwed. We locked in a death dance until the bitter end.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-07-06 03:04 AM
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10. Cut the Pentagon budget by 10%
Insist on an accounting for the mystery $1 trillion they throw away every year. There's plenty, not to mention which Iraqis could fix their country more cheaply.
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Rockstone Donating Member (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:35 PM
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9. The Coalation of the WIlling should pay
after all, they were willing to go along with it...
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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-07-06 03:21 AM
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11. Yes, "we" should pay to the extent "we" committed the crime.
Edited on Thu Dec-07-06 03:24 AM by ConsAreLiars
The "we" in this case are the multinational corporations. And they should also pay reparations to the people of the US for their crimes.

(edit a few words for clarity, hopefully)
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