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    An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt. Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month, donations to rebuild New Orleans have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars.


    Bush plea for cash to rebuild Iraq raises $600

    Mark Townsend in Houston
    Sunday September 25, 2005
    The Observer

    An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt. Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month, donations to rebuild New Orleans have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars.

    The public's reluctance to contribute much more than the cost of two iPods to the administration's attempt to offer citizens 'a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq' has been seized on by critics as evidence of growing ambivalence over that country.

    This coincides with concern over the increasing cost of the war. More than $30 billion has been appropriated for the reconstruction. Initially, America's overseas aid agency, USaid, expected it to cost taxpayers no more than $1.7bn, but it is now asking the public if they want to contribute even more.

    It is understood to be the first time that a US government has made an appeal to taxpayers for foreign aid money. Contributors have no way of knowing who will receive their donations or even where they may go, after officials said details had be kept secret for security reasons.

    USaid's Heather Layman denied it was disappointed with the meagre sum raised after a fortnight. 'Every little helps,' she said.

    In the past 12 months, Americans raised some $250bn for charity, including other foreign causes such as the Asian tsunami victims. Layman said: 'There is no financial goal. People are looking for a way to help rebuild Iraq and this is a way to facilitate that.'

    The fundraising comes amid concern that some US projects in Iraq will be scrapped or only partly completed because of rising costs. Some officials fear that money may run out before key projects are completed.

    Last week, the number of US troops killed in Iraq rose above 1,900.
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    I think this is stupid. Americans already pay with their taxes for this.
    urgh.NSFW

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    • #3
      I wasn't even aware that they had appealed to private citizens for money.

      Holy crap

      At first I thought this was one of those Onion articles
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      • #4
        Well, I guess this means Chalabi and his friend will get a Nano each.
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        • #5
          Taking the normal overhead costs into account this means $60 going to the people who need it..

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          • #6
            Well, two IPods aren´t this bad,
            at least 2 iraqi families will feel better as soon as they get delivered to Iraq
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            • #7
              Originally posted by atawa
              Taking the normal overhead costs into account this means $60 going to the people who need it..
              No, it just means $600 more for Halliburton.
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              • #8
                che, you realize that 600 bucks won't even buy the 3 bottles of champagne, or the coke for one single night for one single upper managment persons weekend out, where he wants to give some to few prossies? That MIGHT be around the tip for one girl after night...
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                • #9
                  $600 will probably buy one piece of Halliburton plywood
                  To us, it is the BEAST.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Ted Striker
                    private citizens
                    are there non-private citizens?
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                    • #11
                      public citizens I suppose... like elected officials and such
                      To us, it is the BEAST.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Az
                        I think this is stupid. Americans already pay with their taxes for this.
                        They also pay taxes for disaster relief. So is the government asking people to donate to relief organizations stupid as well?

                        I think the bigger point is that the Bush Administration went to war while making huge tax cuts for the wealthy. Now that the costs are really racking up, they're getting desperate enough to beg folks for money.

                        Of course, the other point is all the chickenhawks who support the war are not only refusing to enlist and serve their glorious cause, they're refusing to even help pay for it.
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                        • #13
                          Chickenhawks
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Boris Godunov



                            Of course, the other point is all the chickenhawks who support the war are not only refusing to enlist and serve their glorious cause, they're refusing to even help pay for it.
                            Good point.
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                            • #15
                              Fried and then tossed in hot sauce, they're nice and crunchy with patriotic freedom devotion.
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