Iraq Reconstruction: Throwing Good Money After Bad!
The thing about this is, NOW congress people are saying Iraq is not doing enough and have to contribute more to reconstruction. Yah…..it’s the Iraqi’s fault you dumb fucks voted to let Bush TOTALLY DESTROY their country. It’s the Iraqi’s fault that the U.S. hired contractors who did a shitty fucking job. Now it’s THE IRAQI’S FAULT that the reconstruction has failed. Yah, ok. Whatever.
Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say.
The audit released Sunday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven reconstruction effort that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion. It also comes as several lawmakers have said they want the Iraqis to pick up more of the cost of reconstruction.
The special IG’s review of 47,321 reconstruction projects worth billions of dollars found that at least 855 contracts were terminated by U.S. officials before their completion, primarily because of unforeseen factors such as violence and excessive costs. About 112 of those agreements were ended specifically because of the contractors’ actual or anticipated poor performance.
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