it's not like this is new news

or surprising. we knew about this for a long time. not too very many voices crying out for justice though. not too many voices demanding king george and his good ol' whiteboy posse be held accountable not only for this but for the deaths of 4,209 american men and women in iraq and countless iraqi deaths (i've read figures from 128,000 to over 600,000). of course i'm not even mentioning the wounded, mentally and physicially (of ours AND theirs). nor the trickle down effect on the lives of effected families (theirs AND ours). nor the cost of caring for OUR returning troops. yeah, i'm just about done talking FOR NOW


Revealed: Unpublished Fed Document Highlights Costly Rebuilding Blunders in Iraq
Posted by dday, Hullabaloo
T. Christian Miller wrote a definitive work a couple years ago called Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq. Late last week, Miller, who used to work for the LA Times and now writes for the online investigative unit Pro Publica got his eye on an unpublished document detailing the history of the failed reconstruction project in Iraq, and the only thing surprising about it is that the Pentagon allowed the Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, to write it up at all. The blinding incompetence and ignorance, the sustained money funnel into the hands of contractors, and the ideological warfare that led to over $100 billion in waste and fraud, all to simply replicate what we spent even more billions destroying without improving the basic lives of Iraqis, is just astounding. You can pull out anecdote after anecdote that will absolutely floor you.

It also concludes that when the reconstruction began to lag — particularly in the critical area of rebuilding the Iraqi police and army — the Pentagon simply put out inflated measures of progress to cover up the failures............