My understanding has been that the funding for the reconstruction would come from the sale of Iraqi oil.
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A common misconception.
You can track the twists and turns of Iraq "reconstruction" at the following:
Iraq Revenue Watch website (focused on oil revenue)-
http://www.iraqrevenuewatch.org/
Congressional Budget Office Iraq Re-con site
http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4983&sequence=0
Corruption in Re-con process (a sampling of available articles and analyses) .........................................
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040105&s=klein
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/iraq/
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0416/vest.php
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