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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (74501)	2/16/2003 10:25:36 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

In Powell's presentation he indicates that money to Afganistan is lumped in with military expenses, nothing specificly earmarked for the people. The amount, $600 million, is barely going to be able to pay for troops and smart bombs. I hope the Afgani people saved those yellow food packets they dropped a couple years ago. In Afghanistan, the funding will be used to fulfill our commitment to rebuild Afghanistan's road network. In addition, it will establish security through a national military and national police force, establish broad-based and accountable governance throughout democratic institutions and an throughout an active civil society in Afghanistan, ensure a peace dividend for the Afghan people through economic reconstruction, and we will work closely in all of these regards, in all of these efforts with the United Nations and other international donors.