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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (108191)	7/26/2003 4:32:00 PM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 281500

>>it will take two years to build the new plants<< Why do the plants have to be new? I am sure Bechtel wants them to be new -- their fees will be a lot fatter. But there are plenty of old mothballed or just closed natural gas plants here or in Europe that can be dismantled and moved to Iraq in months. And the hardware cost will be nil -- just moving costs, which will not be much more than for a new plant. The owners will be glad to get rid of them for nothing. The key reason why these plants are closed is because NG here has become very expensive, so it justifies the cost of new very efficient NG plants. But NG is practically free in Iraq. There is no need for new super-efficient plants in Iraq -- unless somebody wants to make some fat war profits. Kyros

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (108191)	7/26/2003 4:38:48 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<Nobody realized how rotten Iraq's infrastructure was before the war. >> Some of the complaints about not having power are from people who haven't had power for 10 years. Now they want it overnight.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (108191)	7/26/2003 8:40:40 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Saddam wasn't exactly free to go out and buy new generating equipment, was he? You may now continue with your regularly scheduled demonization operation. We can never have too much war propaganda here, even if the war is semi-officially over.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (108191)	7/27/2003 8:10:38 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Nobody realized how rotten Iraq's infrastructure was before the war. This is in fact a bit curious since before the war, almost all during the trade embargo, "oil for food", etc, we were treated to an incessant stream of news reports about how hard life was being made for Iraqis by these actions - I can't recall how many stories where were about Iraqis selling the last of their belongings on street flea markets for food...... and it was of course all the United State's fault as usual. So the state of the infrastructure really should have been a no brainer, but these things never are. Saddam spent all the money on palaces, mosques and weapons... If there was anything that was underreported bigtime, it has to have been this.