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2005-10-13 Iraq

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-13 10:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 http://www.dni.gov/letter_in_english.pdf
This is the letter,long but good read.
Still, ZARQ needs to be wacked!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-10-13 11:24|| 2005-10-13 11:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Add to the list of amazing things the Americans did all at once, those done under the amazing J. Paul Bremer.

As MacArthur did to Japan, Bremer did to Iraq, but one better. Mac set up Japan to become an economic powerhouse by adding sections to their constitution that would eventually result in success. It still took many years of hard work.

Bremer, however, designed their entire economy from pieces of the best economic systems in the world. It is an almost textbook example of the best of everything in economics. On top of that, being pristine, without the political baggage that those systems evolved in developing those systems from scratch, these subsystems will run at peak efficiency.

This being said, I project a time perhaps twenty years in the future, when Iraq will become one of the top ten economies in the world.

If you think about it, what is happening in Iraq right now, the "insurgency", is nothing. It is a violent sideshow to the big picture, a petty distraction compared to the immensity of what Iraq is being and becoming.

It is a nation nearing 30 Million people. A few thousand violent criminals against 200,000 police and soldiers. A death cult whose days are numbered.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-13 13:58|| 2005-10-13 13:58|| Front Page Top

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