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Greed and Gall: Asking Iraq to Pay for Its Occupation

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4. Higher Education: Article 34 of the Iraqi Constitution states "Free education is a right of Iraqis in all its stages" (Associated Press, August 24, 2005) Therefore, while Americans are struggling to find ways to finance a College education, the American Taxpayers are subsidizing free College education for the Iraqi people.

Iraq now has a Constitution (passed in a National Referendum). A permanent Government will be elected on December 15, 2005. There is simply no reason why Iraq should not repay the aid given by the United States.

We are not suggesting that this repayment from Iraq be done in a harsh way. Rather we are stating that the repayments occur over a period of time so that Iraq can continue to rebuild and grow economically.

Repayments form Iraq would encourage the Iraqi people to quicken the pace of providing for their own security. Thereby bringing the war to a successful conclusion and allowing American troops to return home safely.

We have found through "focus groups" that over 70% of the people support this proposal, regardless if they are Republicans or Democrats, for or against the war. In short, this proposal has overwhelming support among the American people.

We would be happy to help to incorporate this issue into your Congressional Campaign at NO COST to you or your campaign.

We would like to list your name (Congressional District, State, Website and/or email address) on our Website in support of the statement: "The United States should request and receive repayments from Iraq equal to the money that has been spent by the United States on the rebuilding and defense of Iraq."

If you have any questions or comments feel free to call me at 1-800-331-8918 or reply to this email.

We thank you for reading this email and look forward to hearing from you.

With best wishes always, I am,

Sincerely,
Myron Goretzky
Chairman
Coalition for National Referendum
www.nationalreferendum.org

The Fourteen Congressional Candidates who are in support of the "statement" contained above are:

Bob Ellis
Democratic Congressional Candidate
9th Congressional District,
Georgia rjellis@knology.net

Raymond Wardingley
Republican Congressional Candidate
1st Congressional District, Illinois
RayWardingley99@msn.com

Mark Leyva
Republican Congressional Candidate
1st Congressional District, Indiana
info@markleyva.com

Katherine Fox Carr
Democratic Congressional Candidate
5th Congressional District, Indiana
carrforcongress@yahoo.com

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