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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (70816)2/1/2003 12:57:25 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Of course the Iraqis will pay for it. And what "Rebuilding" are you expecting? We are not going to destroy the country. We will knock out a lot of Military Command HQ's they won't need anyway. The only thing to rebuild will be what Saddam destroys during the war in a fit of pique.

An extraordinarily thin view of the costs, Bill. There are the costs of the buildup of forces and the actual invasion, there are the costs of occupation afterwards, the costs of rebuilding the infrastructure, the costs . . . , etc. Many, many costs. We, I gather including you, will certainly bear a great deal of these costs. Whether all of them is hard to tell. Deficits as far as they eye can see.
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