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to: Geo.
from: Bill Lucy
date: 2003-12-15 17:30:34
subject: Re: why Iraq

From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, Geo. says...
> Every time I read about saddam and money it's always us funds he has whether
> it's 3/4 of a billon dollars in some palace or 3/4 of a million dollars on
> his person.
>
> How likely is it that he was trying to collapse the US economy by printing
> money, surely printing presses could be purchased and it's not something
> that would be difficult to hide in a country like Iraq.

As Bob noted, it would be difficult to counterfeit.

In addition, the dollars that would be necessary to collapse the economy would be
just plain huge. There was a thing on the Discovery Channel last week which
indicated the amount of newly printed currency which leaves the United
States is an
astounding figure. He couldn't keep up in quantity, much less quality.

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