"A major global consulting firm has reviewed Iraq's state-owned enterprises and estimated that it would cost $100 million to restart all of them and employ more than 150,000 Iraqis-$100 million. That's as much money as the American military will spend in Iraq in the next 12 hours."
Read Fareed Zakaria's recent Newsweek column on "The Surge that Might Work". Seems to me that if we left a day early, and used the money we'd save to put 150,000 Iraqis back to work, that would be the very definition of a win-win.
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