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Berger wants to pour US money, lives into Iraq

Submitted April 21, 2004 - 3:28 pm by Benjamin Melançon
I'm interpreting a little loosely with my headline.  Democracy Now reported today:

former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger told the Senate Tuesday the US will likely have to maintain a high troop level in Iraq for up to five years and spend another $200 billion over the next three years to stabilize Iraq.

That's under the headline "Dominican Republic To Pull Out of Iraq" (joining Spain and Honduras, which is itself interesting news out of Latin America-- the Dominican Republic, training and staging ground for the US-supported coup against Haiti, pulls out of the 'Coalition of the Willing'!)

Back to Sandy Berger: making the huge assumption that Kerry still wants to distinguish himself from Bush on the Quagmire in Iraq, Berger's opinion expressed above ought to be enough to drum him out of Kerry's foxhole well before the election.  Berger, volunteer advisor to presidential candidate John Kerry, is on record apparently favoring maintaining a high U.S. presence there-- at a cost predictably higher in lives (US and Iraqi), dollars, and time than even the 'maintain high troop levels' for five years, and spend the mindboggling '$200 billion' in three, that Berger advocates.

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