23rd Jul 2003
$30 Million Iraqi Bounty
Speaking of the informant whose tip lead to the U.S. military killing Saddam Hussein’s two sons Qusay and Uday, Paul Bremer, Iraq’s top civilian administrator, said: “I’m looking forward to giving that guy a check for $30 million.”
I’m wondering, where the hell do you deposit a check in Iraq for $30 million these days.
Also, wouldn’t $2 million have been plenty? Do you think it makes a material difference to an Iraqi to get $2 million versus $30 million? Couldn’t you have spent the other $28 million building schools or fixing the eletricity or something? How about $2 million plus a U.S. passport? If it were me, I wouldn’t want to be hanging around Iraq with $30 million burning a hole in my pocket as the guy who gave up the former dictator’s sons. It’s not like you’d be inconspicuous there as an instant multi-millionaire while everyone around you is eating sand for lunch.
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