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Originally posted by theking
War damage is not the major problem. The major problem is that we have learned that the initial infrastructure of Iraq was not up to par to begin with and over the last 12 years has detoriated from lack of maintanance. Bottom line basically the entire infrastructure has to be rebuilt...including the oil producing facilities...lines, ports and ect. This is the reason for the hugh costs.
Before anyone jumps in and blames the US for the detoriation...just remember that the sanctions were imposed by the UN not the US and also remember that even the monies from the "food for oil" program continued to be spent on the building of more palaces for Saddam.
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Basically in agreement.
What does bother me is that the US had intelligence on where and when Saddam was going to fart but none on the infrastructures they intended to use.
Also, since the export of oil was limited to a trickle during the UN sanctions, it should not surprise anybody that those infrastructures are weak.
Why build a five lane highway when there is only a few cars ...
(Explanation for 12clicks: no oil to export, no need to spend on delivery and production ).
PS TheKing : the finger was not directed to you....
