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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.
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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.
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An analysis is presented of how the plan for Operation 'Iraqi Freedom' evolved before the war and during the conflict. Plans to attack and defeat Iraq were revised annually as a routine exercise following the 1991 Gulf war. This policy changed with the arrival of the Bush administration in 2001.
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