Comments on: MIRACLES http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/miracles/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:38:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Paul http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/miracles/comment-page-1/#comment-7414 Paul Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3689#comment-7414 <i> We clearly overestimated the amount of the reconstruction that could be paid for with Iraqi oil resources while perhaps underestimating (or at least downplaying) the cost of the reconstruction.</i> I'm not 100% sure this is true. We can not, for obvious political reasons, demand Iraq pay of the rebuilding with oil money. They can however offer. In the meeting in Madrid, the folks who will one day be the government of Iraq pledged 20 Billion in oil money. Considering that is something like 2X their GNP today that is a big hunk of coin. I'll grant you Iraq was raped by Saddam even more than we realized. But I'm not so sure the Administration was not banking on a big hunk of money which they eventually got. (and the media seemingly missed) I have little argument with the verb "downplaying." But really, the people who opposed the liberation had enough air time, did you expect Bush to carry their water? We clearly overestimated the amount of the reconstruction that could be paid for with Iraqi oil resources while perhaps underestimating (or at least downplaying) the cost of the reconstruction.

I'm not 100% sure this is true.

We can not, for obvious political reasons, demand Iraq pay of the rebuilding with oil money. They can however offer.

In the meeting in Madrid, the folks who will one day be the government of Iraq pledged 20 Billion in oil money.

Considering that is something like 2X their GNP today that is a big hunk of coin.

I'll grant you Iraq was raped by Saddam even more than we realized. But I'm not so sure the Administration was not banking on a big hunk of money which they eventually got. (and the media seemingly missed)

I have little argument with the verb "downplaying."

But really, the people who opposed the liberation had enough air time, did you expect Bush to carry their water?

]]> By: dustbury.com http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/miracles/comment-page-1/#comment-7415 dustbury.com Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3689#comment-7415 <strong>Just don't get sick</strong> As the saying goes, the American system of health care is the second worst in the world, with all the others tied for first; both left and right find it... --- Just don't get sick
As the saying goes, the American system of health care is the second worst in the world, with all the others tied for first; both left and right find it...

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