Question about Fallujah reconstruction

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I've heard some ridiculously low numbers as estimates of what we're going to spend on Fallujah, and those numbers look even more ridiculous after seeing pictures of the destruction there, which isn't even done yet.

But look at this story, isn't this just an absurd contradiction even within the space of a couple of sentences?

This contradiction seems to be saying the U.S. is going to leave Fallujah ruined, so why doesn't it just come out and say it?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-rebuild15nov15,0,1197248.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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The reconstruction effort in Fallouja will require tens of millions of dollars in U.S. funds to compensate residents for damaged property and to rebuild large parts of the city damaged by weeks of U.S. airstrikes and street-by-street fighting.

The project seems likely to dwarf the large-scale rebuilding scheme in the southern city of Najaf, where damage was estimated at $500 million after a Marine offensive in August ousted Shiite Muslim militiamen.

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