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Reply #12: Agree with your points, but who will bear the economic burden?
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Divernan
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Wed Aug-13-03 03:09 PM
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12. Agree with your points, but who will bear the economic burden? |
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It's not just a question of political stabilization, but repairing the massive damage of the war to the whole infrastructure of the country. There are also the massive costs of providing medical treatment and the equivalent of SSI to all the Iraqis wounded. Why should the United Nations, or other individual countries, even other regional Arab countries assume these costs when all or most of them opposed the war? Factor in the endless contamination of depleted uranium with its associated birth defects and cancers on both the Iraqi population and any peacekeepers who go into the country. I don't see any civilized country sending its soldiers or civil servants into Iraq because of the depleted uranium.
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