shady x 10 bejillion-gazillion

[minxnim]

the white house is preparing to award a contract at as much as $900 million to begin rebuilding a postwar iraq. at least 5 engineering firms have been asked to submit bids.

(on the wall street journal cover today)

 

[xfer]

i have a bad gut feeling. yet. privatization is kicking AIDS' ass. i guess i predict that the country will be rebuilt amazingly well and become an economic power, but the people will totally be supermarketed to and become good little consumers.

 

[FuSoYa]

i hope i get to visit the fertile crescent before it becomes the fertile crescent theme park.

 

[xfer]

it's not very fertile anymore. saddam's campaign of genocide against the MARSH ARABS just helped put the nail in its coffin. it's basically just (barren) salt crust now.