Bachmann Wants Iraqis To Pay ‘Several Million Dollars Per Life’ For Every American Who Died In Iraq

[pampango]

By Ian Millhiser on Nov 13, 2011 at 12:05 pm

In an interview this morning with Meet the Press’ David Gregory, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) repeated her claim that the Iraq should pay America for the privilege of having their nation invaded and occupied for most of the last decade — and then doubled down by calling for Iraq to pay millions of dollars for each American killed in that country:

It’s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended . I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that lost a loved one several million dollars per life, I think at minimum.

Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d7fEb4Rjocg

The families of these Iraqi men, women, and children suffer just as deeply as the families of the nearly five thousand American and other coalition troops who died in this unnecessary war. If the families of people who died in the Iraq war require compensation, than the Iraqi victims have at least as strong a claim to compensation as the Americans who died in this ill-conceived invasion.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/13/367236/bachmann-iraq-pay-us-back/

[PoliticAverse]

1. Maybe we can just ask for some of those pallets of cash the Bush administration dropped back... n/t

[RKP5637]

2. What a deal, we destroyed your country for you, now pay us back and thank us.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[ProfessorGAC]

19. The Renewed Treaty Of Versailles?

She is as dumb as box of rocks and obviously doesn't know anything about history. The reparations of Versailles led to Hitler.

Great idea, Michelle.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I doubt if Bachmann sees any other human being except her white, GOP friends. Everyone else is scum.

[Turbineguy]

4. That woman is certifiable.

Which means she could very well win the GOP nomination.

[polly7]

5. No, Bush, Cheney and the warmongers who caused it should pay ..

along with the MIC and corporations that profited from it. Iraq had no say in the matter, and should also be reimbursed for every man, woman and child lost, mutilated or made homeless. I honestly can't believe how cold and mean that woman is .. not to mention being possibly one of the stupidest people on this planet.

[indepat]

6. Or jobless, or orphaned, or (name your own)

If Bachmann would just get her head out of her ass, maybe she could get a whiff and taste of reality. :patriot:

[polly7]

18. Yes, those too. And of those living in toxic waste areas with

depleted uranium and years of hazardous waste dumping. But I doubt Bachmann does reality much.

[rurallib]

7. and we should pay what for the innocent Iraqis we killed, Michelle?

my guess is she will say there lives are worth much less.

[RC]

8. Why isn't Michele living in a rubber room? She has very little contact with reality.

[hobbit709]

14. Im not sure she has ANY contact.

[HappyMe]

9. Just when you think she can't get

any crazier....

[ceile]

10. Sick n/t

[LynneSin]

11. I think that's fair provided that we pay $1 million dollars for every Iraqi civilian we killed

:grr:

[gblady]

27. over 100,000 civilian casualties....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

[hobbit709]

12. She's the Minnesota State Bird in disguise.

[Aleric]

16. That's offensive

..to Loons.

Don't be denigrating Loons by comparing them to Michelle Bachmann.

[Aleric]

22. or did you mean...

..that she's a blood sucking parasite?

[Arkansas Granny]

13. I watched that and also her opinion on waterboarding.

Batshit crazy doesn't even begin to explain her.

[JaneQPublic]

15. That woman's brain is a hazardous waste dump. (nt)

[rocktivity]

17. Well, in view of every Iraqi killed in the name of U.S.

Let's call it even.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Aleric]

20. Then she'll have no problem fully funding the VA, right?

[Politicalboi]

21. She better hope the Iraqis

Don't charge us for all the innocent people we killed in an illegal war.

[kestrel91316]

23. Reparations? For a war WE STARTED??? She's clinically insane.

[Douglas Carpenter]

24. people here just don't understand Michele's dark, sardonic, dead-pan sense of humor

For crying out loud! Does she have to insert one of these: :sarcasm: so that folks can understand where she is coming from?

[SOS]

25. Three facts for Bachmann:

Although facts mean nothing to a woman who thinks the Battle of Lexington and Concord was in New Hampshire, here goes...

1. Exxon/Mobil recently recorded the biggest quarterly profit ($30B) in US corporate history.
2. Exxon/Mobil is the number one US oil extractor in Iraq.
3. Exxon/Mobil did not pay one penny in tax to the federal government in 2010.

Let Exxon reimburse the US taxpayer.

The US military and the US taxpayer got Exxon into Iraq.
Make Exxon pay the US, not the Iraqi victims of a groundless attack on their country.

[Javaman]

26. I think she's been drinking the mercury again. nt

[RKP5637]

28. She's definitely not a well individual. It really concerns me that people like this

get voted into office. What are these individuals thinking that vote her in, or maybe they are just like her which is even more concerning.

[Javaman]

29. maybe her constituents are fans of parody?

it's the only way I can explain it.

[spanone]

30. since WE invaded iraq, maybe we should be the payee, michelle

[Cali_Democrat]

31. She should go there herself, hat in hand

and ask the Iraqis.

Since she cares so much, you know.

[Romulox]

32. If this sort of crass calculus offends you, then STOP SUPPORTING WAR.

The idea of a "correct accounting" for the costs of our military adventures is morally repugnant. Instead, let's stop invading middle eastern countries for their resources. :hi: