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$1 BILLION A WEEK.
- Source :
- Newsweek (Atlantic Edition); 7/21/2003 (Atlantic Edition), Vol. 142 Issue 3, p24-29, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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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