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Article Abstract:

The emergency request of the US President George W Bush for a further 87bn to finance the war on terrorism in significant political implications means that the US will hand more on rebuilding Iraq than it is on aid for the rest of the world put together. Further the request undermines two claims that Pentagon chiefs used to build support for the Iraq war: that US military presence would be quickly phased out and that Iraq was wealthy enough to pay for its own reconstruction.

United States, Financial management, International politics, Finance, Military policy, Bush, George W., United States foreign relations, Company financing, War on Terrorism, 2001-, Foreign policy

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Securing IraqEs maritime flank

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The coalition military commanders in Iraq have designated the small number of port and oil export facilities to be one of their centers of gravity, as they are of strategic importance. Exports of crude oil and imports of civilian goods and raw materials would make IraqEs recovery self-sustaining, and hence, IraqEs coastal and river waters should be secured to give effect to the US-led project to rebuild Iraq.

Postwar reconstruction

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