Do you feel the citizens of Iraq deserve our help rebuilding more than the US citizens on the gulf coast?
October 18th, 2009
Warren asked:
Please don’t go off on a rant about New Orleans either. Hundreds of thousands of good, hardworking people were affected by Katrina. Why is it people can defend the war in Iraq as a humanitarian effort when there are thousands of our own citizens homeless and numerous cities, towns, and communities (New Orleans too) destroyed. Many of them are well above sea level and miles inland from the coast. Please explain what I feel is a hypocritical attitude to have. Don’t say we’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here, and war on terror and all that. I’m speaking of those who continue to use the “operation iraqi freedom” meme and justify the war as freeing the Iraqi citizens and rebuilding their lives by rebuilding the infrastructure and providing government services such as small business loans. Why do you feel it’s ok to use our tax dollars for that and bristle at the thought of using tax dollars to help gulf coasters? Sure there has been much fraud with katrina but millions are missing in iraq as well as 4000 guns. What’s your logic? I beginning to think that if it came down to it, with circumstances surrounding both situations and not knowing either party is a good or bad person, some of you would rather help an iraqi citizen than an American citizen.
Please don’t go off on a rant about New Orleans either. Hundreds of thousands of good, hardworking people were affected by Katrina. Why is it people can defend the war in Iraq as a humanitarian effort when there are thousands of our own citizens homeless and numerous cities, towns, and communities (New Orleans too) destroyed. Many of them are well above sea level and miles inland from the coast. Please explain what I feel is a hypocritical attitude to have. Don’t say we’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here, and war on terror and all that. I’m speaking of those who continue to use the “operation iraqi freedom” meme and justify the war as freeing the Iraqi citizens and rebuilding their lives by rebuilding the infrastructure and providing government services such as small business loans. Why do you feel it’s ok to use our tax dollars for that and bristle at the thought of using tax dollars to help gulf coasters? Sure there has been much fraud with katrina but millions are missing in iraq as well as 4000 guns. What’s your logic? I beginning to think that if it came down to it, with circumstances surrounding both situations and not knowing either party is a good or bad person, some of you would rather help an iraqi citizen than an American citizen.
No. I don’t feel that way.
Most of the citizens of the New Orleans area had plenty of time to leave, and didn’t. It’s their own damn fault if their life sucks, end of story.
And when you’re trying to rebuild your community, rampant crime and fraud aren’t the way to go.
Personally I feel that were waisting lives money and time in the middle east. Those sand jockeys have been killing each other since before JESUS was born. The energy’s should be used to benefit our own citizens here in the U.S. ….. End of transmission.
Charity begans at home! and lives wont have to be lost showing compassion to our own.
I lived near New Orleans for many years…
I would let New Orleans return the the swamp..
Don’t invest a single penny in New Orleans…
Well said. I’ve often scoffed when people say “cut out waste”! My god! The waste in America is legion. We spend more on Foo-Foo the poodle than we do on our veterans (as a people not the Gov’t). Congressional pork (bridges to nowhere, parks for no-one, favors to rich ****** & on and on). Look my friend we’ve got enough money to do it all but we choose to be disingenuous and pretend we can only do so much. Crap!!!!!
I agree with you completely. The government should be putting our people first. What’s wrong with this country?
I think it is rediculous that Suddam is dead and we are still over there, but everyone forgot about the Katrina disaster! Whatever happened to “domestic tranquility”? That should come before overseas matters.
I dont think so. we should help ourselves first
No, No and again NO! Bring our troops home and send them to New Orleans where they can help their own country. We will never win that war in Iraq – they have been fighting and killing each other for decades. Let them do it their way, it just is not our problem. Get our men and women out of there – we have lost too many already.
And, you would propose that we let a simple national emergency of major proportions be allowed to get in the way of our buying friends abroad ? Especially seeing that this type of thing has worked out so well for us in the past ? And, if we don’t rebuild Iraq—there won’t be anything there to blow to pieces the next time we have to go in shooting !!! And, how the hell is Haliburton going to make the billions off of a thing like Katrina that they are making off of the destruction in Iraq ??? If you start spending government money on that level within the country you have to put the work contracts up for bids—I mean — how is that fair ??
And, isn’t it only right that we build houses for people that **** our guts after the hand outs are over — isn’t that the “Christian” thing to do, here ?
And, if we stop building the country back better than it was over there—the people will not want us there–might actually take up the incentive to pull themselves together and govern themselves where we WILL leave !! And, where is the “stay the course” in that ???
And, anyway, these people affected by this “storm” are good ole Americans and should be interested in standing behind absolutely anything this country’s leadership decides to do even if it is something like spending multiplied billions on this “rebuild Iraq” thing while they go without— not to stand behind their country on the “war on terror” is just down right un-American !!!
Hopefully you get my drift here !!!
This whole damned thing has gotten so bloody ridiculous that it defies human intelligence !!!! The saddest part of all of it though is the propensity of the American people to just sit back and take it as if they deserved it somehow !!!!!!!!!1
The US is rebuilding the infrastructure damaged by the war and is putting in some more to improve government services because the Taliban (Saddam’s ousted political party) is also building schools in some parts of Iraq as part of its propaganda.
This rebuilding still part of the US strategy to stabilize Iraq. An “armor con amo” policy that is much less expensive than a total war strategy that has no forseeable positive outcome because of the hatred it creates among Iraqi people.
Yes, I think most people (not some) would agree that US help Iraq NOW than the disaster-stricken US cities and towns and its homeless citizens. The damages, hunger and miseries were largely man-made by US so US is helping mend the wounds.
Natural disasters are God’s act so people should ask God’s help in taking care of it. Victims of natural disasters can recover eventually even when help comes in trickle because they can fix the damages without someone shooting them on rooftops or blowing up bombs while they bring food for their familiesl.
either way the money is wasted.
Bush decided to invade a free, independent Islamic country causing untold destruction and damage to Iraq’s social fabric right to its core.from a rich nation bush have reduced iraq to a beggar country. from a land fertile the US have to reduced it barren. from a population of educated people Bush have reduced them to being terrorists. from a rich, booming economy the Us have impoverished iraq. i think this is the greatest sin and crime that humanity have ever witnessed since the creation of Adam. we cannot even start thinking of rebuilding efforts or comparing it to new orleans or other disaster-struck areas. bush is guilty for the destruction of iraq and the US taxpayers is paying a very high price for it and paying for iraq’s running expenses thru their noses.good luck in next adventure with iran.
No…but we owe them a lot…we did wreck the place. Katrina victims are a different issue but no less important.