“The Iraqi government now has tens of billions of dollars at its disposal to fund large-scale reconstruction projects,” Sen. Carl Levin said in a statement. Should they fund themselves from now on? Of course they should — at last — after all, no other nation has cost US taxpayers as much as Iraq over the recent years: the Iraqi-Kuwait conflict, W’s Iraq war, oil we have been buying from them (as George Bush says, “we’re addicted to it” so it can’t be a good thing for American people) while US corporations have been profiting from the US-Iraq “war and peace relations” all along. If necessary, these corporations will surely pay for any potential financial reparations and get that burden off the backs of American taxpayers. Let’s not be too pushy though given the fact that banks need some liquid money these days. After all, “regular folks”, who definitely wouldn’t mind to get some financial relief, as of late are in Wall Street bank bailout business. The Iraqi budget surplus money benefiting American people? It doesn’t even sound right — more like — dreamlike.