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To: KonKilo who wrote (113576)	9/1/2003 11:59:59 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 281500

As Jacob pointed out earlier, the Iraqis had little trouble rebuilding their infrastructure following Gulf War I. They didn't do a very good job, if rebuilding infrastructure counts for more than building palaces for Saddam. There were plenty of gloom reports by the media on the poverty and desolation of Iraq, with highway overpasses still in ruins from GWI. And that was before the war. I'm sure that Tikrit and the Al Mounsour district of Baghdad had plenty of infrastructure improvements after the war, for sure. Derek

To: KonKilo who wrote (113576)	9/1/2003 12:26:16 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

As Jacob pointed out earlier, the Iraqis had little trouble rebuilding their infrastructure following Gulf War I. Yeah, I guess that's why their oil production plummeted from about 3 million barrels / day to under 500K barrels a day, and stayed near that level for about 6 years, before slowly starting to increase again. And why we heard nothing in the news media but how hard life was for the country's citizens. Oh, you meant the Baathist party infrastructure enjoyed by that minuscule minority of the population.... sure that handful of Iraqis swiftly "rebuilt" for themselves.