[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Why can't Iraq sell its oil resources and pay for its own reconstruction?

[Sparta]

1) The pipeline is constantly sabotoged.

2) The revenue is only about $15 billion a year.

I think the best way to help finance the reconstruction is to privatize all Iraqi government owned industries and to develop a free market economy that will get away from sole reliance on oil exports.

[Conservababe]

They are going to sell their oil and we will benefit.

Also, we must remember that we needed a military base in that area and now we have one.

Too bad old Saddam could not control himself from getting in this mess by invading Kuwait.

But, alas, he did, and now he pays the price of our needed base.

I am awed by George Bush.