Anti-Climacus

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR: From a Salon interview with Viggo Morgenstern:

The question:

"What do you think about the fact that many in the U.S. want part of the money we give Iraq to be considered a "loan" to be repaid with oil revenues? "

I believe there's a term for people who wanted to make U.S. aid into loan form: Democrats. Then the reply:

" [Vice President Dick] Cheney was speaking to a bunch of Republicans the other day, and he said that the U.S. taxpayer would not pay a single cent for the Iraq reconstruction. He said Iraqis would have to do that themselves. I think this is not only a lie -- one that he is quite conscious of telling -- but the statement itself, true or not, displays the horribly arrogant attitude of the current administration. We went into Iraq and made a friggin' mess for no reason at all -- well, for economic reasons that will benefit a lucky few -- and we've seriously undermined any kind of global community. "

Those Democratic bastards! Compounding the folly of trying to help Iraqis write their own constitution and rebuilding their infrastructure by trying to give them money to help rebuild... oh, wait, that was the Bush Administration. Does anyone on the Left even bother with checking their facts anymore?