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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (113263)	8/28/2003 11:59:05 PM
From: k.ramesh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Where is the $1B a week going? Your article points out that Iraq was not like some african countries in infrastructure, and capabilites. This is something that is seldom paid attention to. To americans in general, there a G8 standard of living and then there is the vision of the third world (children with bloated bellies, flies buzzing etc) where most other countries are lumped together. While countries at Iraq's level may not have technology to design power plants, they might be quite capable of installing and operating power plants, refineries, pipelines etc. Is the $4B additional cost or does it include pay and benefits for the troops (since this was being incurred earlier anyway). $1.4B would be 10K per person month. 4B is like 30,000 per peson month. Iraq with 25 mmm people must have had a GDP of say 100-125 billion. Our shock and awe was supposed to spare civilian targets. So where is the multiple 10s of billions coming from. Should n't we just outsource the rebuilding to China,Japan,South Korea, India and get it done cheaper for the tax payer, or better still allow open bidding.