W learned that Maliki feller. Old Dick is smart as a whip!
High Oil Prices Giving Iraq Up to $79 Billion in Surplus Cash
New York Times
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: August 5, 2008
The soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year’s end an American federal oversight agency has concluded in an analysis released on Tuesday.
The unspent windfall, which covers surpluses from oil sales from 2005 through 2008, appears likely to put an uncomfortable new focus on the approximately $48 billion in American taxpayer money devoted to rebuilding Iraq since the American-led invasion.
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