Kerryn Offord wrote:

Chad Irby wrote:

After three years of UN control plus two years of independence, East
Timor's infrastructure is still in worse shape than Iraq's...


Well.. East Timor doesn't have billions of dollars worth of oil... that
always makes a difference. Plus the infrastructure was pretty well
completely destroyed by the Indonesians (what there was to start with)
in the 'war'.

Well it seems Iraq isn't really that different.

Iraq doesn't seem to have that much oil either, at the moment and for
a while to come. Certainly has the potential for abundant oil money
of course.

And Iraq's infrastructure was in none too good shape either, due to
decades of mismanagement, and finally the sanctions.


SMH