Time Running Out for Rebuilding of Iraq

[twaddler01]

This is pretty sad...not to mention the fact that Iraq is leading in the wrong direction in all other aspects...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In their makeshift offices in a former Baghdad palace, a small army of American builders and engineers, oilmen and budgeteers is working overtime on last-minute projects to help reconstruct Iraq.

Their time is running short, their money running out.

After three years in which the U.S. government allocated more than $20 billion for Iraq reconstruction, a bill now making its way through Congress adds only $1.6 billion this year, just $100 million of it for construction — not for building schools or power stations, but for prisons.

Does the sharp cut in aid surprise and disappoint the planners here? "Probably both," said Michael P. Fallon, U.S. reconstruction program chief.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060408/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rebuilding_iraq_1;_ylt=Ap2.KsPGh_Ljy_2xbGEixxpX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[LynnTheDem]

1. WORSE than Hussein. Iraq WORSE OFF now than under Hussein;

Iraqis WORSE OFF NOW than they were under Hussein.

Way to go, bush. MFer.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. Read my post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=882868&mesg_id=882868

Just to give you an idea of how bad it is in the reconstruction department.

:hi:

[0rganism]

3. Combine this with the "rapid results" story, and add up 2+2...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2215107

Whatever happens in the next four months will be called "enough", victory will be declared, and we'll move on to Iran. Easy as rigging an election, right?

[FloridaPat]

4. Took the Iraqis 6 months to rebuild after GW1. The problem is

is the first sentence - American builders and engineers. What a fraud played on them and we the tax payers here.