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To: stockman_scott who wrote (45835)	9/24/2002 2:08:20 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

War with Iraq "is a financial problem because when it comes to overseas expenditures, the United States (especially with Republicans running the government) is cheap. If Europe doesn't back the war, it won't be obligated to help pay for the post-Saddam peace. And that could leave Iraq's reconstruction (including, perhaps, peacekeeping) almost entirely in the hands of a Bush administration that loathes nation-building and faces a mountain of budgetary red ink. In which case Iraq might never be adequately reconstructed at all." Things still need to be ironed out in Afghanistan. Dissipating our strength will only lead to disaster IMO.