87 billion to fix our destruction?  Are you kidding? Make it about 87 million.  The latter amends can easily restore Saddam Hussein’s non-existing economy.  Very small hand-outs, like windfalls, can easily start the old treadmill.  Just let most of the airdrops fall among the poorest who must spend their money at once to still their hunger.

          This money will circulate a dozen times a day and will thus cause the “Wirtschaftswunder” which your tax cut for the wealthy cannot ever realize: Drop every Thursday (before the Friday holiday) 1,000 one-dollar bills in the centres of each province and also in the poorest ghettos of towns of over 100,000 inhabitants and also the same totals in $20 bills on police, fire brigade, headquarters and schools.

          Announce that those airdrops will be tenfold on the following Thursday where there is no shooting and no other violence either.  Simultaneously withdraw, without telling anyone here or there, 10,000 of our warriors a night.  Only when we are out and their self-government in, shall we make small down-payments for the repair of their utilities and infrastructure of schools, bridges, highways, railways etc.  Let Iraq find its own materials and the construction engineers and crews.

          Where some of the oldest civilizations were created under abysmal slavery, the minimum of modernity will grow as soon as schools are made safe for rebuilding culture and security.  Don’t let the mullahs louse up common sense, must be your advice.  But stop giving them your commandments.  Encouragement and promise of some reparations – yes. Interference – no, never again!