Comments on: Iraq Rebuild: Your Tax $ At Work (Not)

American Investment in Iraq Reconstruction Projects At Risk, Inspector General Report Finds

[incog-nito]

It's all relative. If you're a no-bid contractor for Iraq reconstruction, then it's a smashing success.

[Netterz]

Oh wait.. can I even say what I think any more, with out violating an illegal immigrants rights? Look at what Austrailia has learned from our mistakes people. They have instituted laws where.. its a BIG planet, if you DONT like what our cuontry stands for and was founded on, your free to either not come here at all, or LEAVE. Unfortunately, we are too far in teh black hole of BS laws to ever get back out now. I think, I should pack up and move to Aussie, since there government there does have the common decency to listen to "The People" and defend what they stand for, instead of starving there own and taxing them out of there hard earned money, to give to people who want free hand outs,(illegally no less) then tell us how were going to live, so they wont be offended. I have come to accept, that as a legally born, member of a founding family that came over on the Mayflower, law abiding citizen of this country, I no longer am entitled to have any rights... smells of communism to the highest degree. We are being taken over, by all the countries and people that we supposedly tried to 'help'. This is payback for taking native land, how long before were forced to live on reservations like we did to the native americans?

[j-whitman]

condumism,,,, Good post on outsourcing natioal labs & government --- Outsourcing our military troops has had the same result as well,,, Not good for our National Security

[rafterman1]

===Iraq Rebuild -- LOL,,, These people can't even Rebuild New Orleans===

This is a crime. We have spent billions rebuilding Iraq, yet much of New Orleans lays in ruins still. But consider: Iraq has oil. New Orleans has black people and Democrats. Which do you suppose Republicans are going to be more interested in helping? :)

[iceman_1960]

Could this be why we weren't "welcomed as liberators" ????

"Within just a few years [of Saddam Hussein taking power in 1969], Iraq was providing social services that were unprecedented among Middle Eastern countries. Saddam established and controlled the "National Campaign for the Eradication of Illiteracy" and the campaign for "Compulsory Free Education in Iraq," and largely under his auspices, the government established universal free schooling up to the highest education levels; hundreds of thousands learned to read in the years following the initiation of the program. The government also supported families of soldiers, granted free hospitalization to everyone, and gave subsidies to farmers. Iraq created one of the most modernized public-health systems in the Middle East, earning Saddam an award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)."

Wikipedia, with independent sources of information

[Netterz]

American Citizens are suffering at the expense of the so called 'leaders'. 60% of our population is living at or below poverty levels. The people need to start being heard, that were tired of funding every other country on the planet, while our own people are being taxed out of any sort of a living existance. I for one am about sick and tired of only hearing the BAD things our hard earned meny the government is 'wasting'. Turning on the news makes me sick. Where is the good? Talk to the people who are over there giving tehre lvies and freedoms so we can sit back and critisize, based on what the media, which is propelled only by what certain government officials want us to hear. I seriously doubt that many of our troops would be volunteering for 2-3rd deployment, if they didnt beleive in what ther doing and know that there doing good by being there. They are intelligent men and women, not droneless idiots, that would take a 3/4 cut in pay to go over seas and help children and families have a better life. They arent the ones posing on lifestyles of the rich and famous, and you sure as heck dont see any gov't officials giving up there cushy over paying jobs to put on a uniform and go serve. What happened to "WE THE PEOPLE"?!? a few hundered people are making teh fatal mistake of taxing the poor here into a communist country.

[condumism]

Outsourcing the US government by the GOPig Congress of 1995-2006 has only served to benefit the pockets of a few, mostly Southern Shadow companies that have ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY. National Labs are now also run by "for profit" contracts due to cronyismn and totally incompetent fascists who are adept at stealing from the American taxpayer.

[sandy19731]

I don't even know what to say. I guess I'll go plant flowers and try to forget this mess. Please vote Democrat next time everybody.

[j-whitman]

Iraq Rebuild -- LOL,,, These people can't even Rebuild New Orleans

[iceman_1960]

"This whole sad and sorted mess a few still call and American Presidency can't end to soon for most. In the future when FAILURE is discussed in History Class this will be example number ONE!"
Posted by skyk at 11:00 AM : Apr 29, 2007

The name "Bush" will enter the language as a synonym for incompetence.

If it hasn't already, beyond the phrase "bush league."

[jerr11]

Another example of the incompetence of this administration.

But one wonders, is it incompetence or deliberate negligence?

Perhaps all this "reconstruction" is a cover, a scam to rip the American taxpayers of billions of dollars.

The real reason for the war is to bomb the country to shreds, and then use American tax dollars to "rebuid" it with guess what, ******** Cheney's old trusty company, "Halliburton."

So far over $20 billion in war contracts.

What is ********'s cut?

No wonder they don't want to end the war. They don't want to kill their golden goose.

War is great for business!

[middleman8]

"spending ungodly sums of money for people who hate our GUT"S
WHY SHOULD'T THEY HATE YOUR GUT? YOU HAVE DESTROYED THEIR COUNTRY BY FOLLOWING A MADMAN THAT YOU CAN"T CONTROL. THAT WAS A BUEATIFUL COUNTRY UNTILL YOU ATTACKJED A INNOCENT, HELPLESS PEOPLE,THEN STAND AROUND WITH "HERSEY BARS AND COKES"WONDERING WHY THEY HATE YOU.
OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE WHAT YOU ARE GUILTY OF.

[neoconrcrazy]

This Bush War -

on top of its immorality

on top of its criminality

besides the lies we were told

in spite of the hidden agenda

despite all this.....

we are witnessing only the begining of the biggest most flagrant rip-off in history.

[barbaraf4]

The fact that this administration (and its core supporters) is able to sleep at night is an example of how little they actually care about the citizens of the US. We are all expendable.

One after another of these fiascos keep being exposed, and apparently no one really cares.

Keep in mind that this country is being run by non-elected officials. Only Bush and Cheney went through the motions of running a campaign, everyone else was appointed by them. Cheney needs to take Bush dove hunting.

[nothappyatall]

Worst part of it is, we are spending ungodly sums of cash over there for shoddy work for people who hate our guts and don't want us there in he first place!

[jebby_one]

reminds me of some of those housing projects ....

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0801/Cohn/Cohn.html

[downtowner97]

$150 million is chump change compared to the billions of dollars that were given to the provisional government and lost due to "poor accounting". Paul Wolfowitz said at the beginning of this war that Iraqi oil revenues would pay for the reconstruction.

I am trying to start a new welding shop, and the money I am spending in taxes would go a long way toward making me a more productive citizen in my own country. I never feared an Iraqi, but I do fear the hurt the IRS puts on me to pay for wars.

[skyk-2009]

This whole sad and sorted mess a few still call and American Presidency can't end to soon for most. In the future when FAILURE is discussed in History Class this will be example number ONE!

[radiob-2009]

Sites suffered from deterioration, poor or no maintenance, or were not even being used by the people for whom they were built, at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of approximately $150 million.

And these were sites that the United States had previously declared to be signs of Iraq's rebirth: police stations, a military base, a maternity hospital, a recruiting center.


Is this another example of the Iraqi government unable to manage their nation? A government unable to set aside sectarian differences and end the violence this should come as no surprise.
We created the situation by removing their dictator and no one or government has been able to fill his shoes. A nation that is unable to govern itself in any fashion will cease to exist.Responsibilty for creating this continual void is ours. The question now is can the continuing power vacumm be filled or will it splinter into three nations and how do we leave Iraq?

[drummer94]

Conservative? They seem to be lining their and their friends pockets pretty liberally!