Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
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There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.
Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.