AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq

[HOTROCKS]

Why doesn't this surprise me at all ?

As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of abandoned or incomplete projects. More than $5 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds has been wasted on these projects - more than 10 percent of the $53.7 billion the US has spent on reconstruction in Iraq, according to audits from a U.S. watchdog agency.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082901239.html

 

[mrhtbd]

total waste of money, IMO
free is never fully appreciated by anyone

 

[IRON37]

Not to mention the millions of unaccounted for dollars as well. Watched a documentary the other night of the US cia or whatever guy that interrogated Saddam after capture.

And I quote "Saddam never had the weapons of mass destruction that he was alleged to have. He simply used it as a bluff to keep Iran too afraid to invade Iraq. He was afraid of Iran." and "He had no connection to Osama Bin Laden. He said he is just a religious zealot and Saddam said he firmly believed religion and politics need to be kept separate. He didnt want a one Muslim nation like Bin Laden supposedly does. He was just a dictator of his own country."

 

[zeke]

I want to agree with irons. In reality I really don't have a clue. Being afraid of Iran sounds more realistic though.
I wish our countrymen love this country enough to want to protect it's borders and put our people back to work.
We are allowing China to become filthy rich just as we have made Saudia Arabia

 

[basskiller]

it's because it usually costs more money to return it back here than what any given item is worth..
something is just wrong with that