Remember when Bush said this re: Iraq...

[SHRED]

...during the "Mission Accomplished" speech era:

"We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."


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Fast forward to today:

Military Feels Fuel-Cost Gouge in Iraq
By ANNE FLAHERTY – 19 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Think you're being gouged by Big Oil? U.S. troops in Iraq are paying almost as much as Americans back home, despite burning fuel at staggering rates in a war to stabilize a country known for its oil reserves.

Military units pay an average of $3.23 a gallon for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, some $88 a day per service member in Iraq, according to an Associated Press review and interviews with defense officials. A penny or two increase in the price of fuel can add millions of dollars to U.S. costs.

Critics in Congress are fuming. The U.S., they say, is getting suckered as the cost of the war exceeds half a trillion dollars — $10.3 billion a month, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Some lawmakers say oil-rich allies in the Middle East should be doing more to subsidize fuel costs because of the stake they have in a secure Iraq. Others point to Iraq's own burgeoning surplus as crude oil prices top $100 a barrel. Baghdad subsidies let Iraqis pay only about $1.36 a gallon.

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMRq-aOQGyusAfn9GWSM6ai0aY7wD8VPSAIG0

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ON EDIT:
Actually a Wofowitz statement but one that Shrub was on board with.

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[spanone]

1. us troops are not paying for their oil....you and I are.....

[SHRED]

2. good point...understood

[Supersedeas]

3. the U.S. media is very forgetfull

[Muttocracy]

4. kick; listening to Iraq hearings now... nt

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. But Shred

Why do you bring up dollars? Is that all that YOU care about? Don't you want to stay the course? Do you want to allow all 4,012 soldiers who have "*fallen" to have been sacrificed in vain?

One question Shred, Why do you hate America?





*See: Died, dead, murdered, killed, snuffed out, butchered, executed, massacred, slaughtered assassinated


K&R:kick: