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Scott Perry: ‘I would actually like to see Iran pay’ for war

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) suggested Friday that the Iranian regime should be the one to fulfill a $200 billion supplemental funding request from the Pentagon for its ongoing military operation, not Congress, arguing the country that “started the war” ought to foot the bill.

“And they have resources. They have been siphoning those resources away from their population for those four and a half, five decades,” he continued. “And certainly they could pay that bill pretty quickly once things get up and running and the ayatollah’s no longer in charge.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5793393-scott-p...

*whew*, I was worried....but....this idea that the country the US invades will pay the US' costs sounds familiar...

Would the war be cheap and would Iraq pay for it?

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself.

Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan reconstruction that "the $20 billion the president requested is not intended to cover all of Iraq's needs. The bulk of the funds for Iraq's reconstruction will come from Iraqis -- from oil revenues, recovered assets, international trade,

Mr. Wolfowitz told Congress that "we're really dealing with a country that could finance its own reconstruction.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/...

Steve

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