U.S. would pay Iraqi bureaucrats, soldiers during postwar work

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The United States would put Iraqi soldiers to work rebuilding the country and pay to keep Iraq's civilian government bureaucracy running after a war, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.

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