So I just got out of a meeting and here are some samples of your tax dollars (assuming your American) at work:
A local merchant got word to the US military hat the insurgents are using his building to store weapons. He owns the building and sublets the ground floor to shops. The insurgents who rented his ground floor shops said they were going to open a grocery, but instead are using it as a weapons cache.
He doesn’t want any trouble and he doesn’t want the insurgents in his building so he tells the US about it and asks them to clear them out. He doesn’t have to do this, he’s risking his life, but he does. He’s just a guy who doesn’t want any trouble.
So, the US blows up his building. Then they pay out reparations to all his tenants, that would be the insurgents who owned the weapons they blew up. But this guy can’t seem to get the US to pay him any reparations. Nice.
Othe nuggets: The insurgency is demanding 15% of all US military funded reconstruction contracts in Fallujah and they know how much the contracts are for, because they have infiltrated the Iraqi staff. So now, people in Fallujah believe that the US is knowingly funding the insurgency so that the can maintain a presence in Iraq. Again, Nice.
And people say Americans do get irony, we are irony.
Happy Thanksgiving Countrymen, save a drumstick for me.