From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article , "Gary
Wiltshire"  wrote:
>
>They had plenty of warning that we were coming and time to ship the stuff
>out.  A lot of Iraqi scrap metal and missile parts have been showing up
>outside Iraq of late.

Of course they have. But they were looted after, not shipped out before.
Looting was one of the main reasons it's taking so long to bring the
infrastructure, especially electricity, back up. So much copper was looted
from switchrooms and substations.

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