Iraq Legislature charges Kuwait with “draining” Iraqi Budget through billions of dollars as compensations

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature of the so-called White Bloc, Alia Nassif Jassem, has charged Kuwait with “draining” the Iraqi Budget, through scoring billions (b) of US dollars as compensations, based on its invasion by the former Iraqi regime in the 1990s.”Kuwait is still draining Iraq‘s potentials, through scoring billions (b) of US dollars, due to its invasion by the former Iraqi regime, being a total punishment for the Iraqi people, who had no guilt due to the policies of the former regime,” Nusief said on a statement, copy of which was received by IraqiNews.com news agency on Thursday. She said that “Iraq had paied more than 27.62 billion (b) US dollars for Kuwait since 1994, and we don’t known if Kuwait would be satisfied with this continuous drainage of the Iraqi people’s potentials.””This Kuwaiti persistence to punish the Iraqi people, may cause seeds of hatred and harm relations between both countries to anextent that won’t be settled,” she said.