For those of us who are sick and tired of so much of this country's resources going to fight the War in Iraq - a new article in the New York Times will make your blood boil.
Here's the uptake:
Soaring oil prices will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year’s end, according to an American federal oversight agency. But Iraq has spent only a minute fraction of that on reconstruction costs that are now largely borne by the United States.
The unspent windfall, which covers surpluses from oil sales from 2005 through 2008, appears likely to reinforce growing debate about the approximately $48 billion in American taxpayer money devoted to rebuilding Iraq since the American-led invasion.
It's bad enough over 4,000 U.S. soldiers have died.
It's bad enough tens of thousands of troops have been injured.
It's bad enough the hundreds of billions we have spent on this war which should have gone to more important national priorities.
But we're spending money like a drunken sailor when the Iraqis are sitting on lottery money?!?!
WTF?!
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