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Saturday, March 25, 2006


In the immortal words of El Guapo from ¡Three Amigos!, "I like dees guy. Dees a funny guy!"
Well, in terms of the American taxpayers contribution, I do, this is it for the US. The rest of the rebuilding of Iraq will be done by other countries who have already made pledges, Britain, Germany, Norway, Japan, Canada, and Iraqi oil revenues, eventually in several years, when it's up and running and there's a new government that's been democratically elected, will finish the job with their own revenues. They're going to get in $20 billion a year in oil revenues. But the American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this.
He's either incredibly stupid or flat out lying, and I don't think he's stupid. What's amazing is that he got another job.



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