[mwl1]

Good analysis. Small but important item in yesterday's Wall Street Journal... we've let $1.6 billion in Iraqi reconstruction contracts, all to US firms... Mitch Daniels of OMB quoted that Iraqi assets (oil $$$ and frozen/tainted assets) are gonna have to finance both the war and reconstruction... he would not say this without approval from above... this will make the full tax cut possible.

[Howlin]

```Iraqi assets (oil $$$ and frozen/tainted assets) are gonna have to finance both the war and reconstruction```


Here's some money we can get, but it will upset the French, as it's in their banks.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/861683/posts