US Offered USD 75 Million to Iraqi Sunnis for Signature under Constitution

[Lori Price CLG]

RIA Novosti: US Offered USD 75 Million to Iraqi Sunnis for Signature under Constitution
30 August 2005 --The United States has offered to Sunni representatives USD 75 Million to sign the draft Constitution of Iraq, RIA Novosti announced, citing information of a source close to the Constitutional Committee of the country, published in the Saudi daily Al Vatan.

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http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=71234

Lori Price

[aquart]

1. Eh. They wouldn't have paid up.

[rodeodance]

6. capitalism-we will buy democracy-and freedom and liberty.

[WhiteTara]

44. I just heard the printing presses speed up

we'll be printing off that money at break neck speed. Monkey boy doesn't need to worry about how to pay for anything, he owns the printing presses. Wheeeee

[54anickel]

2. W.T.F.!!!!!!! That's going to play well with the Sunni public - NOT!..n/t

[madeline_con]

7. That's the way things are done in that part of the world.

Has been for centuries.

[pretzel4gore]

19. maybe but...

before the usa occupied iraq, while the liars were lying to justify it, there was an interview of a british reporter on cbc radio, and the reporter discussed some of the politics going on in the iraq, iran, syria afghanistan turkey etc area: what stood out about the interview was when the reporter said that (paraphrase) even as brutal and ruthless as are the men who run the countries in that part of the world, even they are amazed by the 'sheer depravity' of the western powers! the usa britain especially.... didya know that the cia bribed iraq's military high command to 'stand down' during the phony 2003 'invasion'? how does such a thing escape the notice of the newsmedia? answer: it don't, but the people won't be told...lol

[bahrbearian]

21. No thats the ways it is done in D.C. now !

[acmavm]

3. OOOOHHHH. No they're resorting to open bribery. Ought to go over

real well with the populace. Make up for losing any say in the way their country is run and any slice of the oil fields.

[wakeme2008]

4. Bush only knows how to buy friends

but this could get his friends killed in Iraq if the local find out they were sold out.

[madeline_con]

10. They'll have their handsout, too. It will never end....

We'l be paying guys off until the next war starts, and we have to divert their monthly stipends to pay for that.

[Horse with no Name]

5. Jeezus H. Christ

Our leadership has no morals and have resorted to fucking bribery.
:banghead:

[Sanity Claws]

8. Bribery -- not democracy

I hope Helen Thomas asks ** about this.

[rodeodance]

9. i hope the press notices (I have illusions)

[Lori Price CLG]

16. Too bad that money is not going to the people in New Orleans...

instead of a war so that Halliburton can operate in Iraq.
Lori Price

[Hissyspit]

11. "Madison Offers $1 Million to State of New Jersey to Sign Constitution"

Headline from 200 years ago.
/sarcasm

(actually, I don't know how historically logical that is, I'm improvising, o.k.?)

[xray s]

12. So that's how much BushCo will sell out the rights of women in Iraq

$75 million.

[Robbie Michaels]

13. I Guess They DID Bring Democracy To Iraq

At least the bad parts of it, anyway.

[Demeter]

14. I Hope Iraq Turned The Offer Down

or did BushCo one better--took the money and didn't deliver!

[AuntiBush]

15. That Money Should Go to LA/MISS Flood Victims!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tk2kewl]

17. where do you think a big chunk of that $2 bil disappeared to

right before the iraqi elections? bought a "successful" election and purple finger propaganda by paying off the insurgency not to blow up every polling place

of couse a bunch of it went into crooked repug pockets too

[Eurobabe]

18. but yet Bu$hCo can't take care of their own

in NO, Gulf Coast.

[slor]

20. "We're paying them over there...

because we cannot afford to pay them over here".

[Javaman]

22. This is what happens when someone writes your constitution for you...

I maintain this is like the Brits writing our constitution in 1782. It's inherently flawed and bound to fail.

[chicagiana]

34. This is what happens when you didn't want a Constitution

Honestly, I think we should have written an interim constitution for these folks a month after the war. We should have had them running their own affairs ASAP. Just give them a constitutional process to amend and eventually replace a boilerplate document.

This "country" does not know what it is yet. Suggesting they draft a permanent document in such an uncertain time is ridiculous.

It really doesn't matter now. We lost the Iraqi reconstruction "struggle" about 8 months after we invaded. Too many fuckups to fix. The insurgency has gained a kudzu like footing. Keeping troop levels steady will just allow things to go downhill. More troops at this point will make things worse (the foreigners have already penetrated the borders). Decreasing troop levels will make things worse.

Iraq is FUBAR!!!! Get out the way and let the Kurds and Shiite's decimate the Sunnis. The alternative is that the Shiites and Sunnis decimate American forces slowly but surely. Than once we are forced out, the Kurds and Shiite's will proceed with the decimation of the Sunnis.

[VegasWolf]

23. The 75 million will be recouped as soon as Bush gets his Oil. nt

[Frustratedlady]

26. Along With the Gazillions We've Already Spent?

Where is this money coming from? How long can we keep spending millions, billions and trillions like we actually have it?

I am going to cut up a tree for fuel, buy a couple chickens and tether a milk cow to the back fence, then dig out the recipes for those cheap soups I envision as daily fare before long. If he was doing his job, he wouldn't have to bribe any of the tribes.

[countmyvote4real]

24. They can probably hold out for a better offer. n/t

[Lori Price CLG]

25. LOLOL!!!! n/t

[Betsy Ross]

27. Bubkes! n/t

[Roy]

28. So! the 9 billion is not so missing after, huh?

nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. That's a paltry sum, given the stakes

Besides, it wouldn't look good if these cats disappeared to the Italian Riviera two days after signing, which they surely would have had to do in order to keep the air flowing in and out of their lungs via an attached throat...

[Festivito]

30. Hmmm. Imagine that. The cost of a better levy in Louisiana.

Guess we know where the levy money went now. To bribe us an inch out of a quagmire.

[leesa]

31. Wasn't that nice of us!

[Old Mouse]

32. not much proof that it's true

but the greater damage by the article is done anyway. no one in the Arab world will believe the constitution authentic.

Not that they would have or should have even without the article.

[chicagiana]

35. Thats kinda funny ...

...
as if any country in the Arab world has a real and legitimate constitution.

[chicagiana]

33. Romans offer annual tribute to Goths in return for peace!!!!

... Is there seriously any difference????

[AlCzervik]

36. "The worst Non-democracy money can't buy"

[schrodingers_cat]

37. The Louisiana Purchase comes to mind..........(n/t)

[SoCalDem]

38. 75 million to buy an Iraqi election? Wonder what '00 & '04 cost..

:puke: bastards

[Lori Price CLG]

41. A lot, but not as much as Halliburton would have charged... n/t

[loudsue]

39. That is OUR money! OUR tax dollars! The republicans spend like

a bunch of drunken sailors with OUR tax dollars, and I'm so fed up with it!

They have NOTHING for the American people, our infrastructure, our schools, our college loans, our levies that can hold back flood waters... and on and on. BUT they have all OUR money to throw around the mideast trying to buy democracy for a bunch of people who CLEARLY have no interest in it!??? And a war that NOBODY wanted except the republicans and the turncoat democrats who have been purchased by the same corporations that are using OUR tax dollars to stuff their coffers!!??

I wonder if sanity will ever be able to get a foothold again in the United States. The republican run government has made the biggest mess of this country, to the point where it is not even recognizable anymore.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Nothing Without Hope]

40. Shows the value the put on something they would spin into "winning the

Iraq War" in blanket TV coverage for the voters back home. When does a bribe morph into a Marketing/Advertisement budget item?

[NVMojo]

42. take it back, give it to the disaster states and bring our troops home!

[nolabels]

43. Bushco paying money to install a religious theocracy

I bet them boys in uniform love it :loveya: