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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:00:06 -0700, Kim Whitmyre wrote:

I just heard the Thief-in-Chief mention 87 Billion dollars. . .And
most everyone else said that was just starters! It is worse!

I heard the Congress mention 400 billion dollars for drugs for
everyone - including Bill Gates - And that is just for starters. It
is _much_ worse.

-Doug

Rather have such for Americans than fork it over for imperial
ambitions. . .

Kim

American companies are where most of the money is being spent. That money
comes back home. Plus the final bill gets repaid with the Iraqi oil money.
The US pretty much broke even in the last Gulf War and by some accounts may
have even made some money by the time eveyone chipped in to cover their
part of the expenses.
I personally know guys that are thinking of going over there and get a
piece of the pie, specifically, going to work for Halliburton as well as
other companies, getting the oil fields lined out again. Lots of other jobs
getting the refineries and all the surface production equipment repaired.
It takes a lot to keep that equipment functioning correctly with regular
maintenance. I work on it for a living and it is a chore, believe me. With
the neglect that country's infrastructure has seen I'll bet the oil fields
are in a helluva mess.
The figures I am hearing are approching $140K and up tax free just
working as hands and pushing crews. If I didn't already have a pretty good
oil field job right now, I would be thinking about it pretty hard myself.

There is personal profit to be made, as always, in war. Unfortunately,
even if we neglect the ethical considerations, most of this profit goes
to a very, very small percentage of "Americans." Ergo, it's a losing
proposition for most Americans.

Kim