"Stay Behind" strategies in Iraq

[Bill Frantz]

At 2:41 PM -0700 4/10/03, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>Some of the poverty was due to the government control of resources
>and how it spent it.  Face it, Iraq has plenty of wealth to pay back
>investors and locals.  All you need is enough warships to guarantee
>that you *will* recover costs.

I'm not sure about this one.  An article in this morning's San Jose Mercury
News indicated that Iraq's international debt (commercial to Russians, and
compensatory to Kuwait to name just two) amounts to about 32 years oil
production.

Cheers - Bill


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