Pulling the plug on Iraq $

The LA Times says goodbye to those grand plans of building up Iraq into a model democracy via a modified "Marshall Plan."

Personally, I have no problem cutting off reconstruction aid to Iraq. What that country needs, instead, are reparations. Massive ones that Iraqis will have control over, not Western bureaucrats who will do their damnedest to funnel whatever monies are allocated into the coffers of transnational corporations.

Many people shake their heads at the corruption at the heart of the American occupation. What they fail to understand is that the missing billions weren't the consequence of some grievous mistake, but rather a nice benefit of the invasion for those contractors that were lucky enough to suckle at the American teet.