-Caveat Lector-
More likely they say that to put it in the budget
and then look good for having a surplus.
They haven't rebuilt anything in Afghanistan except
for a pipeline that wasn't built to begin with.
Any rebuilding done in Iraq with be entirely in the
energy sector. I simply do not believe that
the money will be spent on anything of real benefit
to the only true victims in this: civilian Iraqis.
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Subject: [CTRL] CFR: Iraq Reconstruction
Could Cost $20 Billion/Year...
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/12/sprj.irq.costs/index.htmlReport:
Reconstruction in Iraq could cost up to $20 billion a yearThink
tank says American support critical to missionFrom David EnsorCNN
Washington BureauWednesday, March 12, 2003 Posted: 2:43 PM EST (1943
GMT)WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Stabilization and reconstruction
efforts in Iraq could cost up to $20 billion a year for several years,
according to a report released Wednesday by a think tank. The
report from the Council on Foreign Relations urged President Bush to "make
clear" the U.S. intention to "stay the course" in any post-war operation and
win the support of the American public for such an endeavor. The
council -- comprised of experts from the government, the military and academia
-- based its estimate on an assumed deployment of around 75,000 troops
throughout a post-war period. "Winning the peace is task number two,"
said retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan, a member of the task force that drafted the
report, "Iraq: the Day After." Sullivan described a military victory in Iraq
as the first goal. The report says the president "should announce a
multibillion dollar, multiyear post-conflict reconstruction program and seek
formal congressional endorsement." That program should commit at least
$3 billion a year to the reconstruction of Iraq, the report says, in addition
to the estimated $17 billion-a-year cost of 75,000 troops. The report
called on Bush to stress two messages: Explain the United States' vital
interest in Iraq's future to the American people, so they will be willing to
bear the cost of reconstruction; and to make the public commitment, so Iraqis
understand the United States will not walk out before job is done.
Task force co-chairmen Thomas Pickering -- who served in the Clinton
administration-- and James Schlesinger -- who served in the Nixon and Ford
administrations -- said at a news conference that Americans should not assume
Iraq's oil wealth will be available in the early years to help pay for Iraq's
reconstruction. "In the early years, oil revenues will be
insufficient," Schlesinger said, noting that Iraq's oil infrastructure is in
dire need of refurbishing and that the country's oil revenues are committed to
supplying food and essentials. The report also says that if the United
States has to keep more than 75,000 troops in Iraq, which it calls "a genuine
possibility," then the funding requirement "would be much greater" than $20
billion a year. The Bush administration has refused to publicly say
how much it thinks a war or reconstruction effort would cost in Iraq. Some
administration sources say the White House is likely to ask Congress for
between $60 and $95 billion to pay for a war and reconstruction.
Various administration figures have said there are too many variables
to make such an estimate worthwhile. The lack of any number has frustrated
many lawmakers, particularly Democrats, who say the U.S. public has a right to
know what a war and cleanup operation in Iraq would cost.
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