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According to the U.S. GAO the "oil for food scandal" netted Saddam Hussein regime about $10.1 billion in illegal revenues [Source].
So far the Iraq war has cost the U.S. over $450 billion [Source]. Given the death and damage such an amount of military actiion can inflict, I doubt that Annan could cover the war reparations the U.S. and its "coalition" partners should pay.
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What makes you think military costs in destroying things would have any relationship to the cost of replacing the things they destroyed? Would a bridge be more expensive to replace if destroyed by a multimillion-dollar cruise missile instead of some cheaper weapon?