[Peace-discuss] Fwd: How Bush's Supporters will Profit from the War

[Alfred Kagan]

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>The following is from Jane's Foreign Report, 
>http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr030625_1_n.shtml
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>(My apologies if you had already figured this out for yourself).
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>"What Bush is doing in Iraq
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>"Three months after the US occupation of Iraq, the country is still 
>being shaken up. But there is progress. One advance has been in the 
>oil industry, which has been revived mainly by US companies, some of 
>them associated with leading Washington politicians. In an exclusive 
>story, Foreign Report reveals a second advance that will affect 
>regional strategies and the USA's position in the Arab/Islamic world.
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>"This second development, less well known but no less important, is 
>the US decision to rebuild the Iraqi armed forces.
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>"The USA has a simple idea: to make money out of Iraq. Exploiting 
>Iraqi oil is one way of doing this. We expect US companies to win 
>the lion's share of the contracts. Britain should get a look-in. The 
>French, Russians and Germans, who had 'future contracts' with Saddam 
>Hussein's regime that would have come into effect after the end of 
>UN sanctions, will be out of the deal.
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>"We expect the Bush administration to use the technique applied with 
>Egypt and Israel, both overloaded with new US weapons. The USA will 
>rebuild the Iraqi army on condition that new weapons purchased for 
>the armed forces will be made in the USA, which will supply much of 
>the credit for their purchase with the rest coming from oil revenues.
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