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To: Win Smith who wrote (65622)1/12/2003 3:08:11 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
$100 billion over a decade is peanuts, $10bn a year. If the protracted occupation costs are much higher, they simply won't be incurred in the absence of other sources, i.e., Iraqi oil and/or Saudi and/or Kuwaiti financing.

Voila.



To: Win Smith who wrote (65622)1/12/2003 4:32:31 PM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 281500
 
You guys figure it out amongst yourselves.

But Win, you forget that we get to run about the streets, yelling with delight, and egg the Government on to spend hundreds of Millions in the slaughter!