Billions wasted on abandoned Iraq projects
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As combat troops leave Iraq, they leave behind hundreds of unfinished projects—which cost the US some $5 billion. That amounts to 10% of the $50 billion spent on reconstruction, according to a US watchdog agency—and that could be an underestimate. The AP takes a look at a few examples of wasted money, from an empty $40 million prison to a still-unfinished $100 million waste water treatment system that has yet to stop sewage from running through the streets.
More than 4,800 projects have been completed, though, including success stories like hundreds of police stations and government buildings, newly trained security forces, and a new children’s hospital. Iraqis have complained they were not consulted on projects and often had to pay to complete them, but the Army Corps of Engineers commander says the ultimate success of the reconstruction program depends on them: “There’s only so much we could do. A lot of it comes down to them taking ownership of it.” Click here for the full story.
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Damn, they need to do it themselves. Oh yeah we go blow you up but you gotta repair the damage even though you did nothing.
So is this like that other 9 billion that went missing, it will just stay missing or should they be looking a little harder at the contractor’s books? Blackwater has since moved their outfit to Dubai, which incidentally has no extradition treaty with the US, I know you are all shocked aren’t you they probably won’t be held accountable.
How do you call that game with the little thing under a cover. You know the one, you put the little thing under something and move it around and go, now where is it? That is what the whole desert adventure in Iraq was, just getting money for the big boys and we weren’t to know which little thing the money is under. BASTARDS, more than the money is the total waste of life. Money can always be made, people cannot be brought back from the dead.
“Money can always be made, people can’t.” Well written, Jess. I hope you donmind if I steal that from you.
Nope steal away.
I mind 🙂 🙂 Love ya Sis!
Nation-building (an idiotic concept to begin with) at its worst.
OK… you all knew I meant 2002-2005…
Yes, fourdinners, our tax dollars at work. So nice that the Cheney b.stard et al. made 3,271% on their Halliburton stock between 2002-205.
not to mention dead goats and sheep and donkeys – used indiscriminately to clear minefields.
Bad enough we kill each other but we have to drag the poor old animals along too don’t we?
OH, and who cares about a few (hundreds of thousands, if not millions) dead Iraqis left in their wake.
The republicans don’t think the money was wasted. Much of it went into the coffers of their benefactors. The people be damned.
No Millionaire Left Behind!
The money was though. Our bloody money!
True!
Rebuilding Iraq after knocking it down was always a red herring, the will was never there.