There is a push lately by some conservative pundits and the ruling class of the Republican delegations to insist that Iraq or any other body that was liberated by the U.S. and its military “pay us back”  for our war costs.  The idea being we set you free so you owe us.  I for one could not be more disgusted.  If the fight for freedom across the globe meets the criteria of being in the best interests of the long-term goals of the U.S. or because our allies need our help or because we see an oppressed people who need our unique brand of assistance then we go to war with a clean conscience.  If we go to war to raise money even ex post facto we are no better than the tyrants we depose.  My friends who have gone to war to serve their country did so with the most noble of intentions and to sully their efforts with a demand for cash compensation is to spit on their sacrifice.  Furthermore it leads to motivations that are shameful to consider.  Could we be more “the ugly westerner” than by telling the oppressed people of the Sudan, we would come and end your genocide but we don’t think you would ever be able to pay us back.  So sorry about the horrible rape and murder of your sons and daughters, but you know it’s all about the money.  Could we play into the hands of our enemies any more than having a U.S. Congressman ask for money when we claim to have gone to war in the name of Freedom and Liberty? What a tawdry and dangerous precedent to set.  Anthony Weiner is a pig and his behavior in denigrating women all over the world by treating his position as a pickup line was not nearly so disturbing to me as Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, (Rep. CA 46th), actually asking the Iraqi’s for money as payment for their freedom.  He puts a price on the sacrifice of US Servicemen and women as if their nobility could or should be bought and sold.  Please tell us Rep. Rohrabacher, how much is a life worth in the pursuit of freedom and justice?  Is there a discount schedule?  Do we charge by land won or enemy dead or our own losses? And, is there a price list to give the world for our services in the name of freedom and justice? Rohrabacher should apologize to us all and our Military in particular, as the opening statement in his resignation.