$50,000 per bed
L. Paul Bremer, the American overseer of Iraq, was having a hard time explaining to Congress why he needs so much money. In an attempt to explain a $400 million request for two 4,000-bed prisons, which comes to $50,000 per bed, Bremer explained that there is a "shortage of cement" in Iraq. Mongolian troops returned to Baghdad for the first time since 1258, when Hulegu, a grandson of Genghis Khan, destroyed the city and killed 800,000 people. Donald Rumsfeld claimed that the president's $87 billion request for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan constituted an "exit strategy." It was reported that U.S. casket companies have started building extra-large coffins. "The economic opportunity exists until the country changes," said one coffin maker. "We're just reacting to the supersizing of America."
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Iraq's governing council announced that it was opening the entire Iraqi economy, including essential services such as electricity, telecommunications, and health, to foreign investors. Taxes and trade tariffs will be cut, though oil and other natural resources will be exempt from the new policy.
�Harper's Weekly Review 09.30.03
Ω{Bremer's a Jew with one of those gentile names. Garner too. These are not suppositions, they're in the public record. And you can bet your gas pump the Arab world knows this right down to the most illiterate haji in the most backwater desert. But the American people don't.
I think, and that's suppositional, it's because the American people are bankrolling this whole fiasco, and they might hesitate, or might have, cause it's pretty well too late now, had they known the full import of the cast of this Henry IV tragedy.}
