“It’s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that lost a loved one several million dollars per life, I think at minimum.”
- Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann yesterday on ‘Meet the Press’. Watch:
As Think Progress notes, Bachmann believes that Iraq should “pay America for the privilege of having their nation invaded and occupied for most of the last decade”.
