http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348488,00.html
Ed -- I'm interested in your comments on this, seeing how you kinda
touched on this earlier when I said about them (Iraq) needing to pony up
the bucks instead of the U.S. footing the bill for reconstruction.
From the article:
Iraq is looking at a potential boon in oil revenue this year,
possibly as much as $100 billion in 2007 and 2008. Meanwhile, the
U.S. military is having to buy its fuel on the open market, paying
on average $3.23 a gallon and spending some $153 million a month in
Iraq on fuel alone.
While Iraq pays for fuel for its own troops, it has relied heavily
on U.S. dollars to provide people with basic services, including
more than $45 billion for reconstruction.
Lacking the votes to order troops home by a certain date, Democrats
see fencing off reconstruction money as an alternative to
challenging the Bush administration's Iraq policies. And several
Republicans have signaled their concerns about burgeoning Iraqi oil
revenues at a time when the war is growing increasingly costly.
"Isn't it time for the Iraqis to start bearing more of those
expenses, particularly in light of the windfall in revenues due to
the high price of oil?" said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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