Administration Optimistic on Iraq Support

[ECH1969]

A number of nations have expressed a willingness to help boost international economic support for Iraq, the Bush administration said Monday.

Under the compact, Iraq will pledge to undertake a number of economic reforms and estimates will be developed of how much financial support Iraq will need through 2012 to rebuild its economy.

That estimate will include money that Iraq can be expected to raise, primarily through oil exports, with any deficit made up by international donors. Kimmitt said it was too soon to say how much money will be needed but that the goal was to develop a financing plan by October.

Countries participating in the working group include the United States, Britain, the 25-nation European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073100925.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. "Kimmitt said it was too soon to say how much money will be needed"

...a reminder that "Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt, Bush's special envoy on the issue" is the brother of this guy:


What an incestuous web we weave...:grr:

Oh, and the asshat on the right? He's married to Campbell Brown, of NBC News...:crazy:

[Monkeyman]

2. can we find the 26 billion missing in Iraq first

[mom cat]

4. Check door #3:

Bingo! Halliburton.

[sutz12]

3. All right...

only three years in, $300 billion wasted, 2500 dead servicemen, 20,000 wounded-most for life-, over 30,000 dead Iraqis, and we have found some people to look into making "economic reforms" in Iraq.

That makes me feel better.

:sarcasm: Did I really need that? :shrug: