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BAGHDAD – A U.S. congressman visiting Baghdad Friday suggested that Iraq pay back the United States for the money it has spent in the eight years since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher spoke during a one-day visit by a group of six U.S. congressman. The California Republican said he raised the suggestion during a meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that some day when Iraq is a "prosperous" nation it pay back the U.S. for everything that it has done here.

"We would hope that some consideration be given to repaying the United States some of the megadollars we have spent here in the last eight years," Rohrabacher told reporters at the U.S. Embassy after the meeting.

He did not say what reaction, if any, the prime minister had to the suggestion.

The idea of repaying the United States for a war that the vast majority of Iraqis had no role in bringing about would likely gain little traction with an Iraqi public that harbors mixed emotions about the U.S. invasion. While many Iraqis are glad to be rid of Saddam Hussein, they blame the United States for the chaos and sectarian violence that followed.

The Baghdad city government earlier this year demanded the U.S. pay $1 billion for damage caused to the city by blast walls erected during the war.

The congressman said the United States can no longer afford to send troops all over the world because the U.S. is in an economic crisis.

"We could certainly use some people to care about our situation as we have cared about theirs," he said.

Rohrabacher said the issue of cost could be a factor in any decision about whether to keep troops here past a Dec. 31 pullout deadline.

There are currently about 47,000 American forces in Iraq. Discussion is intensifying about whether Iraq will ask American troops to stay past that date.

Leon Panetta, who has been nominated to take over the Pentagon, said earlier this week during a confirmation hearing that Iraq would likely ask the U.S. to keep some American troop presence past 2011.

US congressman wants Iraq to repay US for war cost - Yahoo! News

wow :rofl:
 
Iraq got bombed.....iraqi got killed......iraqi infrastructure got destryed..........iraq slipped into civil war.......and Iraq has to pay for all this
 
wow the guy must be on drugs:rofl:

US destroyed the whole *ng country to stone age & demanding for $$$ from the country which is left with no infrastrucre & economy.

Actually it is time for the US to repay those countries which are destroyed in these long wars while helping Americans.
 
This is called "Might is Right".................If you kill one man you are murderer..........if you kill 10's and 100's you are terrorist and if you kill thousands you are Conquer.
 
Iraqis have to repay the bullets that killed/wounded them and the bombs that destroyed their homes? Wait, what was the reason why Americans went into Iraq at the first place?
 
Something like that was suggested several years ago but even Bush administration did not stoop to the low levels to demand that 'Iraqi oil' pay for the war. Wasn't it Rumsfeld who said something like: 'Iraq is not a poor country. Iraqi oil could pay for the war'.
Anyway, I hope one day the world is civilized enough to drag Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and a bunch of other neo-cons to The Hague.
 
I'd like to repeat that his views represent but a minority of American views. Please do not take his statements as representative of the views of our entire country.


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