by James Glaser
November 11, 2004

Our "pro-life," "pro-family" President is destroying the city of Fallujah. Resistance by the insurgents has been a lot lighter than the military thought it would be. That is because most of them left before we attacked.

Well no matter how many we are fighting in Fallujah, we are bombing the city, attacking it with tanks, artillery, mortars, heavy machineguns, grenades, and small arms. Everything is getting damaged. Did you know that Fallujah is known as the "City of 200 Mosques?"

After this battle is over the Washington Post reports that, "Marine commanders have $40 million at their disposal to spend in the city, including paying compensation to residents whose property is damaged by either side in the conflict." Now get this, "Families suffering a death, serious injury or property damage can receive a one-time payment of as much as $2,500.

So think of this, we kill a guy's wife, destroy his home and everything he owns, and we can feel good about it because we pay him twenty five hundred bucks. Now is that pro-life and pro-family or what?

The Post reports, "The Army is drawing from the same $40 million pot to pay damage claims."

After this battle is over and we turn the city back to the Iraqis (and those insurgents who will slip back in) we are going to spend another $50 million on fixing up the city's infrastructure. That is $35 million on a new sewage treatment facility for the city, $4 million to build four schools, 6.2 million for a new health care facility, and $2.5 million to improve the electrical grid.

I think about this and I have to wonder why everything is costing so much. I mean Iraq is a third world country with like 90% unemployment, so you know labor is cheap. If we destroy someone's home, the most we will pay is $2,500, so what is a million dollar school going to look like over there? Building materials must be inexpensive or no one would be able to build anything there. Then I thought again and realized that it would be American companies doing all of this. They would be charging big bucks and they are probably going to import everything from back here.

Bush and his administration know what they are doing. Destroy a town that held 300,000 people and there will be a lot of money for contractors, destroy a whole country and there will be even more money to spread around.