Years and thousands of lives after invasion, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has just released a new message to the people of Iraq:
Rebuild your OWN damn country.
From the BBC:
A senior US government auditor has called for American funding of Iraqi reconstruction projects to end.
Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, said Iraq was likely to earn more than $70bn (£35bn) in oil revenues in 2008.
This, he said, meant the government was capable of funding reconstruction projects itself.
This is absolutely abominable. A country invades another country in violation of international law, bombs the crap out of it, executes its president, brings corruption and mercenaries who are above the law and when they can't do much more damage they turn around and say "Now it's up to you to repair the damage we've done."
It doesn't matter to him that the money has been wasted because of Bush cronies crowding around to cream off the money. It doesn't matter to him that the corruption is due to no-bid contracts awarded to crooks and liars such as Halliburton, KBR and Blackwater. All that matters to him is that Iraq's oil revenue should be used to repair the damage.
Newsflash - you bomb a country illegally, it's your responsibility to fix the damage. How the hell does he get to say it's now all Iraq's fault? The poor Iraqi people have been kicked when they are down so much, I'm not surprised they want to not renew the US mandate to stay in their country.
You couldn't make this up!