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<Corporate Germany, meanwhile, is afraid that it will be left out in the cold when the United States begins doling out lucrative reconstruction contracts.
The president of Germany's association of wholesalers and exporters said that German companies have “bad cards“ when it comes to participating in reconstruction because of the impaired German-American relationship. “The Americans and the British won't give us the opportunity,“ Börner said, referring to bids for contracts in Iraq.
France and Germany want reconstruction to go through the UN so they won't be frozen out of those "lucrative reconstruction contracts".