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Originally Posted by dculkin
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Good stuff. I was pretty certain I recalled hearing a lot of talk about it but I didn't have the quotes at my quick disposal.
This is part of the reason we're so unpopular there, IMO. Much of the reconstruction is being contracted out to American firms and a lot of that is way behind schedule or over-budget. Of course the instability has a lot to do with that and that instability was widely predicted, though not by administration spokespeople.
So to Iraqi builders and contractors, frequently frozen out, the whole thing looks a lot like theft of their oil resources.