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So far there is NO indication this promise will NOT be kept. None, zero, zip... absolutely none whatsoever.
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Hang on, wasn't the port at Umm Qaasr a national state run industry?
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0330-08.htm
Oh, guess not.
But the oil is a national industry right?
Well maybe not for long...
http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/532p16.htm
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Surely you are not so naive. Everyone wants their companies to be in on the pie - why wouldn't they? They DO care.
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Why wouldn't we? Because Europeans are not Americans - we don't share the same values. If we did, topless bathing would be common on US beaches, eh?
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So if they accept whatever governemnt is put in place then France, Russia, and whoever else has no saying or importance period.
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An army will be camped on their soil - what choice do they have but to accept the imposed government? Only a *POPULAR VOTE* can say what the Iraqi's want - and yes, even the Ba'ath party should be allowed to stand for election, because that is democracy.
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Reconstruction costs will be payed for by Iraqi oil not coalition funds, and who wouldn't want in on the action.
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What was the $75billion that congress voted for then? A good deal of the money will be channeled through USAID - and that I have no problem with.
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The UN should have nothing to do with the reconstuction of Iraq.
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Fair enough - if you don't mind another 9/11, followed by 10/11, 11/11, 12/11...