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Bob, this is not my pipe dream ... the Bush Administration has a plan for the post-War management and reconstruction that is as meticulously detailed, resourced and bold as is this War plan. Tony Blair has described it in detail to his ministers, and it is going to be an American production with partnership from all those folks who make up the coalition of the willing. The U.N. doesn't have a dog in this fight, not while we are ferreting out every little storehouse of something else that's lethal and nasty and getting Iraq's oil infrastructure to its productive potential. The U.N. is not invited to this party, and the French, Canadians, Russians, Germans and Chinese can beat it too. Australia gets engineering contracts, the Spanish and Italians and East Europeans get agricultural, lumber, manufacturing and construction gigs, the Brits get what they need and American contractors and blue collar guys get some work too.

There is a resource to finance this construction ... which is ... about 7-8 million barrels a day of oil production, some experts say. WHOA! If these poor Iraqi bastards only knew how rich they're gonna be in about 5 years, they might stop blowing us up at check points.

By the way, I embrace every moral right to take the amount we've spent in this war and subsequent reconstruction off the top of the oil proceeds we're going to create for the new Iraqi society. If we spend $70 billion ... well, we get a direct payback from oil sales and a damn good deal on oil for Americans until we're even. At 6 million barrels a day production ... $20 a barrel ... Iraq will be generating $120 million per day, which is $3.6 billion per month and $45 billion per year in oil revenue. That'll work nicely over their 22 million person population ... that's $20,000 per person!

They can pay us back $10 billion a year till we're cool. They probably know not to screw us, we've memorized their address and we've proven that we're not afraid to stop on by if necessary! LOL

First things first, but Bush will make the dismal left wing saboteurs gag on their prediction that we will win the war and lose the peace. A free, vibrant and secure Iraq will ignite historic political and societal change in the despotic regimes of every dungeon-laden torture hole in that oppressive and violent region. And ... how could it possibly be negative change?