BushCo sets up website for donations from Americans for Iraq rebuilding

[Mari333]

Yes, they are that stupid.Perhaps all those keyboard "patriots" will start forking over dough but I wouldnt bet the farm on it



WASHINGTON - (KRT) - 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.



http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/12679449.htm

[gollygee]

1. I thought the whole war was going to be paid by Iraqi oil money

or something like that.

Funny how the right casually forgets how this thing was going to be funded.

[Mari333]

2. yes, and the war would "only cost 5 bill dollars"

they are so clueless as to whats really going on with the unwashed masses.

[Crunchy Frog]

3. Just send your charity checks directly to Halliburton.

:eyes:

I wonder if I'm living in a surreal nightmare and if so, when am I going to wake up?

[Glenda]

4. Forget that shit

I need a responsible govt

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Are they kidding me? Where's all the money already appropriated

for rebuilding Iraq, gone? Where's the nine billion? What a bunch of incompetent assholes! These people are just plain thieves and now the thieves are headed for NOLA.

[Generic Other]

6. I donate all of the ill-gotten Bush fortune

Will that help?

[Ouabache]

14. Only if you can get the Swiss and Cayman account numbers

but my guess is that would fund it and more.

[peacetalksforall]

7. What gall. They steal our money and ask for donations?

Hey, why don't you ask the people who profited from the museums you let them loot?

What nerve. What audacity.

[Mari333]

8. they ARE that stupid!

never underestimate how blindly stUPid they are.

[shance]

9. It's not stupid. Its LOOTING. Just like New Orleans. THey are

wanting to bankrupt the nation.

The more we give our money to them, the more power we give them over us as well.

[Justyce]

10. Sadaam's pile of

money they found & the profits from Iraqi oil wells ought to be plenty... we're broke & have to worry about providing for our elderly & poor who are being neglected by our own country. :(

[leesa]

11. Excellent! Let his supporters pay for his crimes.

[justgamma]

12. He must read DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4739361

[linazelle]

13. The sad thing is that they will actually get donations. n/t

[Cocoa]

15. "Contributors have no way of knowing who's getting the money"

[Wizard777]

16. This will become a slush fund. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

17. We already HAVE donated via tax money

These people are un-freakin-believable!

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Well if Halliburton would stop stealing all the official money.....

[Marr]

19. Can someone tell me what these corporate pigs contribute?

The rich get massive tax cuts, and so much of our remaining resources are spent securing the "vital corporate interests" of these pigs that our own infrastructure falls apart. Our social programs are being dismantled. We're already subsidizing Corporate America with everything from tax money to blood, and they show their appreciation by gouging at the gas pump, shipping jobs overseas, and doing everything in their power to undermine domestic labor.

And now we're supposed to DONATE cash to Halliburton?

Something is seriously broken here.

[Sabriel]

20. I live in the "Donation Nation"

WTH is the government FOR, anyway? I'm supposed to donate to the Red Cross, to this fund, to that aid association.... Where the *uck are my taxes going, pray tell?