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To: stockman_scott who wrote (45913)	9/21/2002 4:03:35 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

Comparing rebuilding Germany with Irak is not valid. Unless the point is Jacussis for half the families in fifty years. They have running water and irrigation. Two of the best rivers on earth are theirs, undisputed. The have more water lakes unused and unnecessary at this minute that the entire (yes entire) ME and North Africa, Nile excluded. Their agricultural land is huge, good and already well irrigated, because flat. And they have their oil! Food self sufficient, exporters of oil almost forever, non alcohol drinking Irakis : an extra fifty dollars a month per Iraki for usual consumptions (small Oil output), and you think their kids won't have books to study with and games to play ? No wonder Irakis believe in Allah. Strange that the Jordanians do. They have nothing.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (45913)	9/21/2002 4:06:43 PM
From: Rascal	Respond to of 281500

Newly installed leaders will likely find their fate linked to the speed with which Iraq's agricultural, transportation, communications, financial and health care sectors can be rebuilt and modernized. Moreover, the Iraqi people, many of whom have little experience with modern society, will need to be shown how to tend to their new-and-improved resources for themselves. They will have to accomplish this without allowing centuries of ethnic animosity and tribal blood feuds to get in the way (as is already the case in Afghanistan). Sounds like Lawrence of Arabia in Akaba. Maybe they can rent the flick For George W. Rasacal@thatpeskyrepeatinghistory.com