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Should taxes in America be raised to help rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan?

Right now Afghanistan and most of Iraq is in ruins from years of neglect and warfare.It will take unknown Billions of dollars to rebuild them to a stable nation.Shouldn't taxes in America be raised to help in the reconstruction of those countries?I agree that it should.Instead of saying you support the war or that you supporrt the troops this would be a better way of helping those countries. A lot of people compare the war in Iraq to World War II.Right after that conflict there was something called the "Marshall Plan", where the US spent millions of dollars to rebuild western europe.This same approach should be used for Iraq and Afghanistan,there is rebuilding going on now for those countries but it could be done a lot faster with massive US aid.Whenever you hear about big money going towards Iraq it is usually for the Occupation Forces that are there and very little is for the people who live in those countries. Iraq's Oil industry is a long way off from helping to rebuild it's own nation.Northern Iraq is a stable area,but the people there want to break away from Iraq and form their own nation called "Kurdisdan",they have elected officals to Iraq's parliment,and some of it's soldier's are stationed around Iraq,but their long term goal is to form their own country,Turkey will not let that happen and have attacked northern kurdisdan recently,and will probaly do so again.

Public Comments

1. Iraqi oil money should be used to build Iraq. Infact we should be getting some money from them to help cover the extreme debt of the war. We are doing are job and theres only so much more we can do. the UN can provide all the aid needed.
2. You mean raise taxes NOW? Are you crazy? Americans only know how to take out loans and borrow money from corrupt nations that force us to use our military as their economic arm. Our government is borrowing almost $2billion a day because we won't reelect OR elect someone that will hold us accountable for our obvious bad choices we send to Washington. You are dreaming. Until public financing happens and people learn the smallest sense of responsibility, neither US or the countries we destroy will benefit from logic, much less compassion.
3. no way we have far too much of our own debt to become social security for other contries. They want to get up on there own 2 feet i say they do it through hard work just like the usa originally did,
4. No way
5. Afganistan was a ruin anyway.Oil money should be used to fix iraq and it should continue to flow from there at a very nominal rate,as Bush promised.Taxes should be raised for the wealthy only to pay down the debt as they alone should pay for their Presidents' blunders
6. you must be living a good life. i'm on social security and can't afford to pay any more taxes. you must be a democrat. and let me remind you. taxes on s.s.i. checks were raised-----by your party when clinton and the dems controlled congress.
7. no my tax dollars should not be used to rebuild iraq and afghanistan...they right now control the oil that runs americas cars..let that money rebuild
8. Congratulations, You have found the secret of becoming a completely successful Democratic Congressman. While you're at it why don't we raise taxes to rebuild Panama, Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Myanmar and all the other places on the face of the earth where despots have had to be pried loose from killing and enslaving their own people. Are you nuts? I worked my butt off all of my life and can barely afford to keep a roof over my head and you want to tax me even more? How about going to some of these countries and ask them to pay back some of the money that we have poured into them and give the taxpayers in this country a break for a change!