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Originally posted by Billy_Dean@10 November 2003 - 18:09
Billy, my beef at the beginning of this "invasion" was with the way the west went in. I said then that going in as an invading force, was different to going in as a liberating force. We went in as invaders, a purely military force, with the sole purpose of occupying the country. Had we gone in as liberators, we would have done things very differently. We would have invaded, sure, and secured the country. But at the same time we would have taken in truck loads of medical supplies, engineers to get the superstructure up and running, the power and water especially. We would have defended schools, hospitals, museums etc. from looters. We would have had plans for the immediate deployment of a police force, and many other things.
When you read the above post you can see this .. The key items in the reconstruction include $5.5bn on the electricity sector, $4.3bn on water systems and $1.9bn on oil infrastructure. Maybe I'm being cynical here, but it seems to me that we didn't do these things in the beginning because it was always planned to charge the Iraqis for them later.
PS. Billy, do you really think the US will pay that money in the long run? They'll get every cent back through Iraqi oil.
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It all bears out what i posted a while ago about the money men in the shadows