perfidy

Yesterday was a day of music blogging, but since today I'm feeling vituperative, I'd like to comment on this.

Senate Republicans, bowing to what appears to be a Senate majority, said Tuesday that they had begun exploring a compromise that would require Iraq to repay at least part of the $20.3 billion in reconstruction aid the Bush administration wants to spend.

So lemme get this straight. We go in and blow hell out of their country. We find that the previous head of household left it a shithole. Said shithole isn't producing revenue fast enough to offset the cost of helping the residents of said shithole survive past age 20. Consequently, we ask the people living in said shithole, who would very much like to ascend to "hovel" or even "happy dwelling" status sooner rather than later, and who have been on the whole most accommodating to our ass-kickery, to come up with the money themselves sometime soon. The money they don't have.

Well ain't that a kick in the fucking head. Maybe the Senate should look into the possibilities of extracting a pound of flesh from each Iraqi citizen instead. Or perhaps traffick in their children. Either way is equally insulting as the actual proposal.

Twenty fucking billion. What is that? The cost of a hammer? A drop in the ocean? Thanks, Senate Democrats, for finding a new low! Thanks, Republicans, for sharing in the discovery!