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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: KyrosL who wrote (12571)10/16/2003 8:16:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (5) of 793921
 
First, most of the money is wasted. It costs many times more to do things the US army/Halliburton way than if Iraqis were doing the work by themselves. So far, Iraqi reconstruction is mostly a vast pork barrel project for connected non-Iraqi (mostly US) companies.

Second, there is no sovereign Iraqi government that can legitimately sign up for these loans. Iraq is under US control, and I am sure no Iraqi in his right mind will want to pay US Army prices for the reconstruction that is going on over there.


Agreed. I would add, Third, we care about our foreign image and it looks extremely bad when the richest country in the world demands loans from a poor and broken country that it has just conquered, even if the poor country has oil and is only poor because of misrule.
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