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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (12580)10/16/2003 9:24:12 PM
From: bearshark  Read Replies (1) of 793953
 
>>>>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.<<<<

If the U. S. taxpayers provide grants to Iraq, would you accept provisions that require

1. All reconstruction work going to U. S. companies (One option would be to set goals and assistance for Iraqi participation as suppliers or subcontractors to U. S. firms in an effort to build Iraqi industry.)
2. Some guaranteed amount of Iraqi oil to be shipped to the U. S. each year for a period of decades. (One option is that U. S. taxpayers would pay for oil at the going rate and would receive a guarantee of so many barrels a day of future production.)
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