By Steve Hynd
Fresh from suggesting the US should fund cutting down the Amazon rainforest to combat greenhouse gasses Dana Rohebacher, senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has a new WTF moment:
"Once Iraq becomes a very rich and prosperous country... we would hope that some consideration be given to repaying the United States some of the mega-dollars that we have spent here in the last eight years," Rohrabacher told journalists at the US embassy on Monday.
Asking for cash back after invading on a pretext of WMD, wrecking the country's infrastructure, occupying the nation for eight years and killing or displacing millions of civilians is the very definition of Imperial hubris, surely. The Iraqi government's reaction was the obvious one:
"We called the US embassy yesterday and we told them to ask the congressmen to leave Iraq," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told AFP. "We don't want them here. What they said was inappropriate."
I wonder if the Saudis or Turks could arrange asylum for Rohebacher if we told them we don't really want him back.
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