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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/us-upset-over-iraq-buying-basmati-from-india/916642/US upset over Iraq buying basmati from India
Agencies : Houston, Sat Feb 25 2012, 15:11 hrs
US Congress members from the largest rice-growing states are on warpath, asking Iraq to resume buying US long-grain rice, instead of from India.
"We liberated their country for one thing," said Texas Congressman Ted Poe. "We would think they would consider the US in trade since we spent billions of dollars not only to liberate their country, but to rebuild their infrastructure."
Twelve Congressmen have fired off a letter to Iraq's Trade Minister Khair Alla Babaker earlier this week pressing him to get Iraqis back on the American long-grain variety.
The letter said there was a 77 per cent drop in rice sales to Iraq between 2010 and 2011, even though "not long ago, Iraq represented the largest market for US rice."
Eeeeehah!
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"We liberated their country for one thing," said Texas Congressman Ted Poe. "We would think they would consider the US in trade since we spent billions of dollars not only to liberate their country, but to rebuild their infrastructure."
That guy doesn't have a freaking clue
CAPHAVOC
(1,138 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Ask this wingnut how much we should pay Iraq for each life we took.
tanyev
(42,613 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)That congressperson must be wrong about us paying for the war.
Confusious
(8,317 posts)Love it or leave it.
spanone
(135,874 posts)MiniMe
(21,718 posts)Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)Let me see if I can explain this. The US went into Iraq and killed a whole bunch of people. People eat rice. Now there are less people to eat rice. The Iraqis seem to have concluded that if the US really wanted to sell rice, the US would not have killed so many people.
avebury
(10,952 posts)benefits the US.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Fuzz
(8,827 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)To get money from them.
-- Mal
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati
jwirr
(39,215 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)Get it through your thick head.
We will never get "our money's worth" out of Iraq.
Iraq's political infrastructure is too new and inexperienced to understand the concept of earmarks let alone cater to the leadership of a former occupying army.
Sorry, no Iraqi subsidized rice sales for your constituents. The circumstances are entirely different than quietly slipping a request into an unrelated Bill.
Rex
(65,616 posts)at all. These assholes have been destroying our country by playing 'Imperialism' and it shows...like in the comments from some of the most evil assholes I've ever seen - Texas politicians. I love my state, I hate my state. I view the intelligence of these folks around 80 or 90IQ at best. Nobody could be the willfully arrogant, it must be low IQ imo.