The Chinese and Euros love Iraq so much they are investing billion$$$$$$$.

Foreign firms investing in Iraq - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — European and Asian companies are beating their American rivals into Iraq now that security has improved the investment climate, Iraq and U.S. officials say.

"It's starting to turn … and the people who are getting in on the ground floor are not American," said Paul Brinkley, the Pentagon official who is leading U.S. efforts to help Iraq rebuild its economy. "It's ironic."

Foreign companies, including U.S. investors, have committed to deals worth about $500 million so far this year and Brinkley expects at least $1 billion in foreign investment by the end of the year.

So far, Romanian consortium and a Lebanese company have signed revenue-sharing deals with Iraqi state-owned cement factories. Each group will invest about $150 million.

China has also aggressively pursued the Iraqi market, selling machinery to the government and electronic products to consumers.

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President-elect Clinton fooled the American people

If I were Maliki, I wouldnt allow anyone to invest that wasnt part of the coalition. ESPECIALLY France Germany and Russia. We need to hurry up and get in on this but liberals will whine and scream as usual.

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Americans have most of the construction contracts.
As usual, US Corps will invest in Iraq and Americans will blow away all competition.

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President-elect Clinton fooled the American people

Thats good to hear.

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The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Norman Thomas