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Wondering how the President plans to spend the $87 billion he asked for to rebuild Iraq? You could have tuned in to David Letterman last week to hear Colin Powell try to ease the country's sticker shock. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will soon be appearing on Oprah to do a version of the same. The Administration's plan to bypass the traditional media has got so creative that someone in the White House suggested the Secretary of Defense should appear on the Imus in the Morning radio show. Donald Rumsfeld declined...
...Capitol Hill, Bush's eye-popping supplementary budget request of $87 billion in the current fiscal year for military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan--which includes $20 billion in grants to rebuild Iraq--has left even Republicans gasping. As it becomes clear that there will not be a sudden influx of non-American troops into Iraq, the Pentagon is having to extend tours of duty there of regular soldiers and reservists. Bush's travails have invigorated the Democratic Party; all the Democrats running for the White House make criticism of Bush's record in Iraq a part...
...feel they haven't been well served by consumer-electronics companies," says George. "These companies always have the next hot thing, which doesn't work with the last hot thing and doesn't work with the competitor's next hot thing. So you're always in the wreck-and-rebuild stage...
...billion Amount, adjusted for inflation, spent by the Marshall Plan in 1949 (its peak year) to rebuild Europe after World...
...people were angered and deeply saddened by the terrorist attack on the u.n. building in Baghdad. Here in Mosul, everyone has seen how helpful the U.N. has been in sending teams to clean the city, preserve the forests, improve the water supply, help upgrade the health-care system and rebuild and develop the city. Those who carried out the attack are bloodthirsty, murderous villains who are trying to derail the process of rebuilding our country. Many Iraqis believe Baathists and Saddam Hussein loyalists were responsible. These criminals were created by Saddam. He picked them from Iraq's worst social class...