Why is my Brother dying?

[11chaos]

If your not my brother then don't post here and I mean Military brother. Please respect this otherwise I will get it closed.

I wasn't over there to fight for them(Locals) and still find it repugnant that we are there to protect their best interests.

The following story is about the craziness of war.

The GAO estimates that Iraq will earn $67 billion to $79 billion in oil sales this year, twice the average annual amount of revenue that it generated from oil sales from 2005 through 2007. This windfall comes despite the fact that Iraq is still struggling to approach pre-invasion oil-production levels.

While Iraq has amassed budget surpluses, the U.S. Congress has appropriated roughly $48 billion since 2003 for efforts to stabilize and reconstruct the invaded nation. As of this June, the GAO said, about $42 billion of that money had been spent.

"The Iraqi government now has tens of billions of dollars at its disposal to fund large-scale reconstruction projects. It is inexcusable for U.S. taxpayers to continue to foot the bill for projects the Iraqis are fully capable of funding themselves," Sen. Carl Levin , D-Mich., said in a statement. "We should not be paying for Iraqi projects while Iraqi oil revenues continue to pile up in the bank, including outrageous profits from $4 a gallon gas prices in the U.S."

For the full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20...latchy/3010139

[angel0430]

I feel u my brother. I am in the AirForce and I fully understand what u are saying. In the first place, this war should have never started but it is out job to do it. Hopefully with a new president would come new changes to this ongoing war.