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Thread #64112 Message #1046123
Posted By: Ebbie
02-Nov-03 - 02:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: A hidden cost of the war!
Subject: RE: BS: A hidden cost of the war!
Time Magazine, October 27, 2003, verbatim:
"$15 million Value of a contract awarded to an American firm to build a cement factory in Iraq with taxpayer dollars. $80,000 dollars Amount an Iraqi businessman spent (using Saddam's confiscated funds) to build the same factory , after delays prevented the American firm from doing it."