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There must be Russian companies that could provide these services because of the vast number of oil wells that they have developed in Russia. If not the Russians, how about the Canadians
The Russians back Saddam's regime. The Canadians are not participants in the coalition. I doubt a non-coalition country would allow a private company to operate in Iraq. Nor should anyone expect the coalition, which is controlling a war zone, to allow a non-coalition based company in.
Perhaps if there was a NGO that did such work, but to my knowledge one does not exist?
As to death counts. You cannot make such estimations based on guesswork. Many Iraqis will die, those who do not capitulate will die. That is war.
So to will many die at the hand of fellow Iraqis. In Basra the Baath party troops turned their mortars on their own citizens. We have heard reports of Fedayeen dressed in US style uniforms, attempting to accept the surrender of other Iraqi units in this guise and then shooting them. Iraqi units using the pretext of surrender to stage counter attacks.
Iraq's regime has long used human hostages around their sensitive sites. They have also positioned military equipment next to mosques, ancient antiquity, and amongst civilian populations. Some of their units operate in civilian attire and drive civilian vehicles.
They know our soldiers will do everything they can to avoid civilian casualties. So they will conduct combat operations from this shield while the world media reports how horrific and inhumane the coalition militaries are.
- p.s. To claim this is a war due to pressure from campaign contributors is not really worthy of discussion.