Iraq Reconstruction Slammed

[Lex]

Poor construction, improper design, substandard materials and lack of maintenance have caused the failure of seven of eight U.S.-funded Iraq reconstruction projects that were recently reviewed by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, according to an inspector general report. The United States is spending $37 billion on Iraqi reconstruction.

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Zora first mentioned this over a year ago. How can anyone say that this entire fiasco is about anything other tha fattening the pockets of people with oil, defense and construction interests?

UGH.

 

[witchway]

It's really all quite sad. And as an American living overseas I have no plausible explanation as to just why we destroyed the country in the first place!! Other than money was there to be made by a few in the Bush inner circle.

 

[DC_DEEP]

Sometimes I just keep getting reminded, vaguely, of a play. The Mouse That Roared.

 

[D_Humper E Bogart]

Just tell me that Iraqi people are helping rebuild their country!

 

[Lex]

Just tell me that Iraqi people are helping rebuild their country!

There is no money to be made in that, Orca.

 

[B_JQblonde]

7 out of 8 substandard. Typical performance for gov't construction projects.

 

[B_big dirigible]

If they can make it 8 for 8, then servicemen from the Boston area will feel right at home.

 

[madame_zora]

I put a good deal of effort into it last year, when it was just the Iraqi police academy. Nobody gave a shit then, I doubt they will now.

Anyone claiming to be a fiscal conservative who still supports this administration is a piece of human excrement, and I really just don't want to get into it yet again.

We are under the domination of an administration wholly comprised of corrupt, money-grubbing tyrants. Fuck all of you who pull out any piece of shit they can find anyone else having done in the past, and using that as a FUCKING excuse as to why we should just bend over and take it from this far more organised, greedy, and effective regime. You don't get it- great. Why does the whole nation, and by extension the world, have to pay for you to continue having the right to be ignorant?