Tax dollars to throw away

icecool

for the worlds richest nation nothing seems impossible

ganesh

As Bush had already said (or rather, Bush's puppet string pullers have made him say), they are planning to recover the 'investment' in Iraq through oil money! Exposes the 'capitalist' mindset of Bush and his cronies. Wish 'capitalism' was put to better use!

SonLight

This version of "downtown redevelopment" sounds like a highly unlikely pipe dream, especially if it is proposed that it be done with American funding. The US has recently declared that further development projects should be paid for by the Iraqis, which seems appropriate at this point since there is oil export money they can use for that purpose. Of course, the pentagon or whoever is free to suggest such a project to the Iraq government, but I believe the Iraq government will wisely choose not to fund a project which can only make them appear to be subservient to US interests.