Does the US Govt have a clue about good PR

[DanS]

So the US taxpayer will fit the reconstruction bill, not Iraq's oil revenue? Or what?

The congress has authorized spending so far of about $2 billion in humanitarian assistance/reconstruction. This modest communications contract is part of the $2 billion. There has been absolutely no suggestion that we would be reimbursed for any of this $2 billion.

[HershOstropoler]

"There has been absolutely no suggestion that we would be reimbursed for any of this $2 billion."

Ah yes, but that's not the entire story. The 2 billion serve as the entry point to the maybe 100 billion for Iraqi reconstruction, funded mostly from its oil revenue. And the US seeks to control that money - and one can only assume, to hand it out as pork to US companies.

[Lord Merciless]

Worldcom is now managed by Michael Capella, a genius who managed to sell the worthless piece of Compaq to HP for 20 billion and took 16 million in severance for bailing out after only 6 months.

Now he is the CEO of Worldcom, another brilliant move in my opinion: if he saves the company, he becomes the hero; if he doesn't, he takes no blame since Worldcom i\was already bankrupt.

[Tattila the Hun]

I understood that WorldCom is one of the best in it's area of expertice, despite it's crappy management.

[Lord Merciless]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
I understood that WorldCom is one of the best in it's area of expertice, despite it's crappy management.

Yes, it is the best among telecom companies at ripping off their customers.

[Whaleboy]

$2 Billion is a) a drop in the ocean to the US, and b) not even coming close to being enough to rebuild Iraq to turn it into the sort of society the US wants it to be (another example of one subjective point of view being forced on another... and in this case it wont work for various sociological reasons that are irrelevent here).

The money to repair Iraq and "get it up to speed", should come from the USA. Are we going to see another example of bad stamina like we saw in Afghanistan? Or are we going to see the USA funding from its own pocket the "project" that it, for whatever [misguided] reasons, it undertook.

Is the money to repair Iraq, something on the order of $70B - $100B I would estimate, going to come from the US pocket, or will Iraq have to provide it for itself, via its own oil and the UN trust fund? Straight answers only please.

If not, why not?

Again, straight intelligent answers. From now on, I take pointless flaming and ad hominems as a sign of poor reasoning and concession in the argument, we should start thinking with our minds, not our flags.