Amy Proctor is busy demonstrating her poor critical thinking skills. After whining piteously about “Sen. Carl Levin’s crude accusations during the Petraeus/Crocker hearings last week that Iraqis are satisfied to stand by and use American money while they hoard their own”, she quotes the following exchange from a CNN interview with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari:
BLITZER: Now, as you know, Foreign Minister, there are a lot of Americans, especially lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who feel they are being played for suckers right now, that the Iraqis have all this oil money, but the U.S. taxpayers are still paying the bills.
ZEBARI: Well, we appreciate very much what the U.S. is contributing to help the Iraqis to rebuild, reconstruct the country. But in fact, we are shouldering the main burden on looking after our people, and extending services, and carrying out reconstruction projects throughout the country.
And again, I would say, really, that the figures that Mr. Levin introduced, compared to what we have spent, differ widely. And I agree to a certain extent that there is some shortcomings in the management, in the administration, in the corruption level. But we are doing our best.
We are not standing by. This is our country. And we are spending on ourselves.
No actual numbers. No data at all. The special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction estimates that recent Iraqi oil revenues may be as high as $60 billion. But all the Iraqi Foreign Minister has to do is mumble the equivalent of “nuh-UH”, and Amy believes him.
Gullible much, Amy? There’s some swampland in Florida I’d like to sell you…
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April 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Amy Proctor
Is that your only argument, that I’m wrong? Shouldn’t you try to prove it?
The Iraqi Foreign Minister is correct in his assertion that Iraq is bearing much of the burden and if you look at it from a purely geographical standpoint it can be argued that they are bearing the overwhelming brunt of the burden. The war is, after all, in their country.
Sen. Levin doesn’t seem to understand that the Iraqi economy was completely demolished in 2003. The banking system has only been opened for 2 years which is why Iraq uses US banks. Terrorists are constantly trying to sabatogue the banks and services which means they must be build and rebuilt.
And we’re spending less than 1% of our GDP on Iraq.
The point is that the world, including Iraq and Iran, watch the circus Democrats create on the Senate committee hearings and the insulting manner in which Democrats enjoy demeaning our allies with completely contradicts their idea that they have some hope of “restoring America’s reputation” in the world. They are what is damaging it.
Leaders are always envied, criticized and put down. The U.S. is the world leader in almost every category. Democrats would rather subvert the US into a “peer pressure” acquiescence rather than embracing the “it’s lonely at the top” reality that comes along with leading the rest of the globe.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
meatbrain
Shouldn’t you try to prove that you are right, Amy? Or are we supposed to take it on faith that Amy Is Always Right?
How do we know this, Amy? What is Iraq actually spending on its own reconstruction?
Show me the money.
Wow. What a grasp of the blatantly obvious you have, Amy. I am in awe.
Yap yap yap. What is Iraq actually spending on its own reconstruction?
Yap yap yap. What is Iraq actually spending on its own reconstruction?
Yap yap yap. What is Iraq actually spending on its own reconstruction?
Yap yap yap. What is Iraq actually spending on its own reconstruction?
No, Amy. The point is that if a rational person is to believe that Iraq is using its oil revenues for reconstruction rather than hoarding the money, proof of this assertion is required.
You, on the other hand, apparently need no proof.
God forbid anyone ask inconvenient questions about what we are spending to reconstruct Iraq, right? Especially after the Bushies told us it could be easily paid for out of Iraq’s oil revenue. Better for us to be good little sheeple and believe what we are told.
Thanks for clearing that up for us, Amy.