Allies Urged to Make Good on Iraq Pledges

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 10, 2004

TOKYO -- Hoping to keep much-needed cash flowing into war-ravaged Iraq, Japan will host a 50-nation Iraqi reconstruction donors' conference this week that may focus less on getting new pledges than on getting countries to honor their earlier promises.

The two-day conference, starting Wednesday, is a follow-up to a high-profile meeting in Madrid last year in which 37 countries and international lending institutions pledged $13.6 billion in grants and loans.

Only about $1 billion of the pledged amount has been deposited in World Bank and U.N. funds for Iraq.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-donors,0,7967161.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


So we've only received $1 Billion from our coalition partners to fight the war in Iraq? Gee, that's not what Bush said at the debate last Thursday?

[w13rd0]

1. of course that isn't what Bush said...

...that's because Bush lives in lala land, where he is services by cherubic Dred Scott disrespecting unborn blastocysts.

[displacedtexan]

2. That wouldn't be a... SUMMIT... would it?

NAH! BushCo would NEVER take part in anything as stupid and COMMIE as a SUMMIT!

He'd get Japan to do it.

[teryang]

3. Who does reconstruction in a war zone?

This is more political fiction.

[acmavm]

4. Considering how much money goes missing from that place, why

would they want to 'make good' and hand over millions knowing that it just might disappear like so much of ours has. That would be stupid.