Reply #2: well common sense here people

[amazona]

We are at war. We can't rebuild the cities and infrastructure of the enemy. It doesn't make sense. Any pretense of doing so (and there is some) is just a way to steer more funds to the likes of Halliburton.

Let's see. Bomb a city. Build the city back up. Oops, there are angry people there, might be a terrorist hiding under the bed, let's bomb it again. And so on! A great way to relieve the taxpayer of every last dime and to fund the B.F.E.E. but not a very practical exercise that does any good to the victims of war.

We have to end the war first. Then rebuild. The tsunami is over. Rebuilding serves a practical purpose. The war is not over. Rebuilding is just getting funding for Bechtel and the like to soak the taxpayer multiple times for rebuilding the same buildings!

The human tragedy in Iraq is terrible indeed. But we won't end the tragedy of wars of invasion by making it MORE profitable for the war profiteers. Indeed, we would give them incentive to operate more and more such wars.

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