kaiser soze
10-24-2006, 09:09 AM
Fucking thieving asswipes, stealing from the American People, exploiting the needs of the military, and leaving Iraq to crumble...where the fuck are the checks and balances?
War Profiteering at it's finest (http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061024-042508-2097r)
The fuckers score the jobs and the money without competition and this is the result
WASHINGTON -- Four months after US forces rolled into Baghdad, US President George W. Bush declared his goal would be nothing less than to convert Iraq's infrastructure into "the best in the region" - yet US contractors today are readying to depart, leaving that goal unattained.
"Iraq's reconstruction is the largest and most complex reconstruction project ever undertaken in a single country," the army added, comparing its scale to the US Marshall Plan that helped restore post-World War II Western Europe to economic self-sufficiency.
Critics, however, have termed the reconstruction effort everything from only a modest success at best to "one of the greatest colonial rip offs in history."
Unquestionably, the undertaking is among the grandest such endeavors ever, with 11,000 construction or renewal projects attempted by various Pentagon and civilian agencies, according to army information.
A signal of the US intent to dramatically scale down its involvement was the administration's request for just $770 million for reconstruction funds for fiscal 2007, a figure cut to $200 million by the House.
Yet, by most estimates, Iraq is suffering from a major "reconstruction gap" with much work left undone. And estimates to finish the job range from $20 billion to $50 billion.
War Profiteering at it's finest (http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061024-042508-2097r)
The fuckers score the jobs and the money without competition and this is the result
WASHINGTON -- Four months after US forces rolled into Baghdad, US President George W. Bush declared his goal would be nothing less than to convert Iraq's infrastructure into "the best in the region" - yet US contractors today are readying to depart, leaving that goal unattained.
"Iraq's reconstruction is the largest and most complex reconstruction project ever undertaken in a single country," the army added, comparing its scale to the US Marshall Plan that helped restore post-World War II Western Europe to economic self-sufficiency.
Critics, however, have termed the reconstruction effort everything from only a modest success at best to "one of the greatest colonial rip offs in history."
Unquestionably, the undertaking is among the grandest such endeavors ever, with 11,000 construction or renewal projects attempted by various Pentagon and civilian agencies, according to army information.
A signal of the US intent to dramatically scale down its involvement was the administration's request for just $770 million for reconstruction funds for fiscal 2007, a figure cut to $200 million by the House.
Yet, by most estimates, Iraq is suffering from a major "reconstruction gap" with much work left undone. And estimates to finish the job range from $20 billion to $50 billion.