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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: KyrosL who wrote (117217)10/19/2003 2:19:22 PM
From: Sig  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<<<Sig, the average Iraqi army salary is $50 a month. 200,000 soldiers will cost $10 million a month, or $120 million a year. That's 0.14% of the $87 billion budgeted for next year. What's more, we are already paying them the salaries >>>
Well that explains why they looked half-starved, threw down their weapons and uniforms and vanished.
But there is a potential use.
If the US were to pay them $100/month to join us, perhaps they would be willing to sit in the desert and guard the Syrian/Iranian borders.
Sig
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