Remember that GAO report from a few weeks back revealing that: 1) Iraq’s oil revenue surplus could reach $50 billion this year and 2) roughly $10 billion of
“„Americans are paying for Iraq reconstruction twice, once when they fill up their gas tanks and again by giving the Iraqi government billions of dollars which they don’t need.
“„My plan sounds simple because it is. Iraq has the money to pay for its own reconstruction, while our country is swimming in red ink. We need to take our money back and invest it our country.
“„Iraqis have had little incentive to spend their own money given the willingness of the United States Congress to keep writing blank checks for President Bush’s disastrous adventure there.