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$1 BILLION A WEEK.

Authors :
Dickey, Christopher
Johnson, Scott
Nordland, Rod
Soloway, Colin
Hirsh, Michael
Wolffe, Richard
Lipper, Tamara
Source :
Newsweek (Atlantic Edition); 7/21/2003 (Atlantic Edition), Vol. 142 Issue 3, p24-29, 6p
Publication Year :
2003

Abstract

Reports on the cost of maintaining peace in and rebuilding post-war Iraq, as of July 21, 2003. The experience of Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during a trip to Iraq; How the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush says the occupation and reconstruction is self-financing; Description of the destruction caused by the invasion of Iraq by the United States; Discussion of the cost of a military presence in Iraq to American taxpayers; Outlook for production and revenues from Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization; Infrastructure projects with American contractor Bechtel; Details of a budget presented by L. Paul Bremer III, the Coalition administrator for Iraq, which include the one-time windfall of frozen Iraqi assets; Question of whether the U.S. alone will have to support the $1billion-a-week cost for the military presence; Coalition soldiers killed in Iraq since May.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01637053
Volume :
142
Issue :
3
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Newsweek (Atlantic Edition)
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
10376667