New twist on aid for Iraq: U.S. seeks donations (WTF???)

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/20050918/ts_chicagotrib/newtwistonaidforiraqusseeksdonations

By Cam Simpson Washington Bureau
Sun Sep 18, 9:40 AM ET



From the Indian Ocean tsunami to the church around the corner, Americans have shown time and again they are willing to open their pocketbooks for charity, for a total of about $250 billion last year alone.

But now, amid pleas for aid after Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration has launched an unusual effort to raise charitable contributions for another cause: the government's attempt to rebuild Iraq.

Although more than $30 billion in taxpayer funds have been appropriated for Iraqi reconstruction, the administration earlier this month launched an Internet-based fundraising effort that it says is aimed at giving Americans "a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq."

WTF??? :wtf: Bush want us to donate to Iraq? What happen to all the money???

[MADem]

1. The beginning of the end

How long before he raises taxes? Vegas oughta start taking bets!

[okieinpain]

2. that's what I want to know.

[Atman]

3. Remember the old bumper stickers...

"Why can't we properly fund our schools,
and hold a BAKE SALE for the Pentagon?"

It appears we've come to that.

Except without the school funding, either.

[Lori Price CLG]

4. Iraq: $100 million in reconstruction money goes missing 10 Oct 2005

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
10 October 2005
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

Iraq rebuilding slows as U.S. money for projects dries up 10 Oct 2005 "American money has dried up," says Brent Rose, chief of program/project management for the Army Corps of Engineers in southern Iraq. And tracking the billions of dollars that flooded into a war zone in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion has proved difficult, too. Nearly $100 million in reconstruction money is unaccounted for.

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Lori Price

[Booster]

5. I know I read where they had received $600 in donations, but the

article says they've received $39. Does that mean they have already lost the rest, like the billions of taxpayer money in Iraq? And are we to believe that Bush himself has only donated $39, or nother at all? I can't believe this great country of ours is being run by such incompetents - it's mindboggling.

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6. $39.00 so far! LOL

:rofl:

[zbdent]

7. Cheney needs to prop up Halliburton's stock

Isn't it a weird coincidence, but isn't Halliburton's trading symbol "HAL"?