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To: bearshark who wrote (12570)	10/16/2003 6:38:15 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Iraq reconstruction money must be grants only, as long as the US is in charge of reconstruction. The reasons are simple. First, most of the money is wasted. It costs many times more to do things the US army/Halliburton way than if Iraqis were doing the work by themselves. So far, Iraqi reconstruction is mostly a vast pork barrel project for connected non-Iraqi (mostly US) companies. Second, there is no sovereign Iraqi government that can legitimately sign up for these loans. Iraq is under US control, and I am sure no Iraqi in his right mind will want to pay US Army prices for the reconstruction that is going on over there.

To: bearshark who wrote (12570)	10/16/2003 8:14:07 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793917

Should we build Iraq with grants, loans, or a combination of grants and loans? Didn't much of the left say in the beginning that the "administration" would try to profit from oil? NOW, much of the left doesn't want to entertain grants from the US, but rather loans for the rebuilding of Saddam's Iraq ...(Kennedy, Pelosi, Daschle, etc) This seems to me that the left is indeed the group that wants to profit from Iraqi oil....... Also, the left never misses a beat on hitting the large American companies who have contracts to assist in rebuilding. To date, I haven't seen ANY suggestions from the left of other companies which are large enough, with enough depth, to accomplish the goals.