Subject: [Homestead] Lifting the U.S. load in Iraq a little
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:07:31 -0500
A drop in the bucket in U.S. costs which ultimately could be a trillion
dollars across the necessary years of stabilizing and rebuilding. But
any help is welcome. My cup floweth over if a Chirac tax were passed in
Iraq so France had to cough up some money to compensate the U.S. for the
military cost of keeping Mideast oil flowing to the French. Not
likely---as Georgie Patton said, "I'd rather have a German Division in
front of me, than a French Division behind me."
* Iraq to invest $3.75 billion in oil refineries *
<http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453391.0458333334.html>
BAGHDAD — Iraq plans to invest $3.75 billion to construct and modernize
oil refineries. An Iraqi government plan urged the Oil Ministry to make
the construction and modernization of refineries a priority in 2005. The
plan said Iraq was not obtaining revenues from its refineries, estimated
at $5.2 billion a year.
/SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM/
[Homestead] Lifting the U.S. load in Iraq a little,
tvoivozhd, 01/25/2005