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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBut We Painted All Those Schools
But We Painted All Those SchoolsIt's difficult to describe the madness of that era, when invading a country in order, it seemed, to provide fresh coats of paint for their schools made sense.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/03/but-we-painted-all-those-schools.html
Too Much Money Spent in Iraq for Too Few Results
LARA JAKES MARCH 6, 2013, 8:30 AM 2218
WASHINGTON (AP) Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost.
In his final report to Congress, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowens conclusion was all too clear: Since the invasion a decade ago this month, the U.S. has spent too much money in Iraq for too few results.
The reconstruction effort grew to a size much larger than was ever anticipated, Bowen told The Associated Press in a preview of his last audit of U.S. funds spent in Iraq, to be released Wednesday. Not enough was accomplished for the size of the funds expended.
In interviews with Bowen, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the U.S. funding could have brought great change in Iraq but fell short too often. There was misspending of money, said al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim whose sect makes up about 60 percent of Iraqs population.
LARA JAKES MARCH 6, 2013, 8:30 AM 2218
WASHINGTON (AP) Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost.
In his final report to Congress, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowens conclusion was all too clear: Since the invasion a decade ago this month, the U.S. has spent too much money in Iraq for too few results.
The reconstruction effort grew to a size much larger than was ever anticipated, Bowen told The Associated Press in a preview of his last audit of U.S. funds spent in Iraq, to be released Wednesday. Not enough was accomplished for the size of the funds expended.
In interviews with Bowen, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the U.S. funding could have brought great change in Iraq but fell short too often. There was misspending of money, said al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim whose sect makes up about 60 percent of Iraqs population.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/report-too-much-money-spent-in-iraq-for-too-few-results.php?ref=fpblg
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/money-spent-iraq-results-18663079
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But We Painted All Those Schools (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2013
OP
I remember reading "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone"
CrispyQ
Mar 2013
#1
Not to mention that article in the September 2005 issue of Harper's about how
Lydia Leftcoast
Mar 2013
#4
It wasn't misspent, it was stolen by politicians (theirs and ours) and contractors.
OregonBlue
Mar 2013
#5
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)1. I remember reading "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone"
when it came out. Stories of schools with freshly painted walls & raw sewage flowing in the bathrooms. What the Bush administration did was criminal, but we will no longer hold our Presidents & their administrations accountable, because they are all doing something horribly wrong. So we will continue to look forward.
Sadly.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)4. Not to mention that article in the September 2005 issue of Harper's about how
the Republicanites wanted to use Iraq as a test case for their Ayn Randian paradise, because they wouldn't be constrained by public opinion or American laws.
littlemissmartypants
(22,692 posts)2. Have you not seen this? It helps to explain somewhat.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)5. It wasn't misspent, it was stolen by politicians (theirs and ours) and contractors.
KG
(28,751 posts)6. there was no way such an enterprise, constructed totally of lies, could ever turn out otherwise.