Posted on 10/21/2011 8:43:20 PM PDT by tobyhill
With Muammar Qaddafi finally out of the picture, Republican lawmakers are pressing the U.S. to open its wallet to help the new regime in Libya rebuild its nation, restore essential services and care for those wounded in the eight-months-long bloody conflict – an expense they say oil-rich Libya can and will reimburse.
“They’re willing to reimburse us. It’s not a matter of money,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told Fox News, making a tough sales pitch in an era of high unemployment and increasing austerity.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., noted that the Libyans’ top request was for help in tending to the country’s wounded and that the French and Germans have reached agreements with the new government to treat them.
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Maybe they could reimburse us by finding and returning to us the 20,000 stinger missiles that have gone missing from the Libyan stockpiles. (Al Queda probably has them already)
How'd that work out, btw?
I knew this was going to happen ONLY I thought this suggestion would be forthcomming from Dear Leader and the Commie, Demo-Rats in Congress, NOT from some Republitards.
How'a about we take a wait and see attitude until we know who will end up in power?
Nothing like pouring BILLIONS into what will no doubt, be another "Islamist Republic" which they in turn will use against us
Remember, you can't fix stoooopid, but you can vote it out!!!
War is a profit center. The right people have made gobs of money from Iraq, are making gobs of money from Afghanistan, and will make gobs of money from Libya. It’s what we do.
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