{"id":188,"date":"2003-10-10T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T13:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=188"},"modified":"2003-10-10T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2003-10-10T13:55:25","slug":"spinning-donor-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Donor Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/09\/international\/middleeast\/09DIPL.html?th=&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">LINK<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>The impression I get from this article is that the World Bank intends to present a low-ball figure in its report to an Iraq donor conference slated for Oct. 23, 24 and hosted by Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Suggesting Iraq can only absorb $6 billion in infrastructure repair next year would make any of the otherwise miniscule &#8216;donations&#8217; seem like a success.  Even &#8216;administration officials&#8217; are saying the estimate is unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/Stories\/0,1413,36%257E53%257E1686084,00.html?search=filter#\">this article<\/a> Rumsfeld is utilising the hype.<\/p>\n<p><i>The international community has a big interest in seeing Iraq rebuilt, Rumsfeld added.<\/p>\n<p>The role of the international community, especially the United States, is just to get things started, Rumsfeld proclaimed. Other countries have already given &#8220;hundreds of millions&#8221; to the cause.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[LINK] The impression I get from this article is that the World Bank intends to present a low-ball figure in its report to an Iraq donor conference slated for Oct. 23, 24 and hosted by Spain. Suggesting Iraq can only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}