On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:30:42PM -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote: > Rebuilding Afghanistan will cost roughly $15 billion > over the next ten years.
One year's NASA budget. > The United States pledged $297 million in Tokyo and has already more > than met its initial one-year commitment to Afghan reconstruction. In > the spirit of President Bush?s earlier call for a ?Marshall Plan for > Afghanistan,? Congress passed the Afghan Freedom Support Act in > November 2002, which would allocate $2.3 billion over the next four > years. The questions that remain are whether the government will make > the money available and whether health will be a priority." -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
