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(TALKZIMBABWE) Bush, Brown economic logic

Bush, Brown economic logic
Farai Mambo - Opinion
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:38:00 +0000

DEAR EDITOR – As Britain and the U.S. are clearly suffering economically, ideologically and morally in the Middle East, I think they should take advantage of the Iraqi President’s call for them to leave the country and do just that.

We know the predicted cost of the offensive in the region to the U.S. economy is approximately US$3 trillion, at least according to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. The cost to Britain could be half of that figure.

This figure dwarfs the US$700 billion G.W. Bush asked Congress to approve to rescue the U.S. economy from an impending recession.

If I was G.W.B. (of America) or G.B. (of Britain) I would consider this statement very seriously and leave Iraq immediately and direct those funds to rescuing a financial crisis which is now threatening the whole capitalist system.

For countries that blamed Zimbabwe for an offensive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the late 90s, you would think that common economic sense would prevail and they wouldn’t spend trillions of taxpayers' dollars on an offensive in the Middle East, especially in Iraq where they ousted a leader who had nothing to do with the 9/11 bombings.

Farai Mambo
London

Labels: NEOCOLONIALISM, NEOCONSERVATISM

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