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Posted on Apr 30, 2007

Seventy-five percent of projects surveyed in the latest report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction were no longer functioning properly. Investigators said facilities began breaking down after only six months and that roughly $5 billion is lost every year to fraud.


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Six out of eight Iraqi reconstruction projects hailed as successes by the U.S. government are in fact failures, a U.S. federal investigation has found.

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction examined works including a hospital, a barracks and Baghdad international airport.

Blaming ongoing unrest and spiralling corruption, they said most were falling apart within as little as six months.

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By Lord B, May 1, 2007 at 10:52 am Link to this comment
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It’s just so frustrating and tragic for the Iraqi people. The hoax perpetrated by W on the reasons for invading Iraq and now five years later, billions spent and wasted, thousands upon thousands dead and a pathetic attempt at rebuilding Iraqi infrastructure, where does this gross ineptitude end??

Why don’t Democratic candidates bring up this kind of information when debating? Why isn’t this talked about more?

How can Bush justify more troops when the infrastructure is collapsing all around?

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By DennisD, April 30, 2007 at 6:54 pm Link to this comment
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“Blaming ongoing unrest and spiraling corruption, they said most were falling apart within as little as six months.”
Do they mean in Washington D.C. or Iraq? I’m sure the money pipeline Bu$h Inc. has going to the contractors is functioning just fine. I hope we voters have a sense of humor because the joke is once again on us. Why is none of this reported by our Orwellian mainstream media? I guess I answered my own question.

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By euni84, April 30, 2007 at 3:43 pm Link to this comment

Fighting a war that we were misled into fighting and causing more tumult in the Middle East is not going to ensure national security. We have spent over $340 billion in Iraq, with the price tag rising, and no good has come out of it. There is no peace, no end to terror and worst of all we have left the Iraqi people in deeper poverty. Who is benefitting from this war?

According to the Borgen Project, $340 billion has already been spent in Iraq and we have a $522 billion military budget. What has resulted from that money? The money would be better spent on plans such as the UN Millennium Development Goals to end global poverty. Just $19 billion annually can end starvation and malnutrition. Issues such as poverty foster a lot of the tensions that exist in the world today. As leaders in this world, we really need to get behind peaceful growth rather than war.

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By QuyTran, April 30, 2007 at 10:31 am Link to this comment

Just ask Dich Cheney, he knows everything about missing monies. Where did these huge bucks go ? To Halliburton chest !

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By Leefeller, April 30, 2007 at 7:57 am Link to this comment
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Accountabllity, seems to be the rule for most of us, but not the folks in Washington D.C.  Other folks than just those in the White House should be going to jail.  Be interesting to see if any of that money went to the guns for hire.

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