Eight billion a month being spent in Iraq. How is the reconstruction coming along?

Question

I know it's not doing so well along the Gulf Coast where Americans live.

Answer 1

humm,
Reconstruction Nightmares continue. US still lying but paid US FATCATS for Iraq Reconstruction never done
Published: April 29, 2007
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.
The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success — in some cases, as little as 6 months before the latest inspections — were no longer working properly.
The inspections ranged geographically from northern to southern Iraq & covered projects as varied as a maternity hospital, barracks for an Iraqi special forces unit & power station for Baghdad Int. Airport
At the airport, crucially important for the functioning of the country, inspectors found that while $11.8 million had been spent on new electrical generators, $8.6 million worth were no longer functioning.
At the maternity hospital, a rehabilitation project in the northern city of Erbil, an expensive incinerator for medical waste was padlocked — Iraqis at the hospital could not find the key when inspectors asked to see the equipment — and partly as a result, medical waste including syringes, used bandages and empty drug vials were clogging the sewage system and probably contaminating the water system.
Curiously, most of the problems seemed unrelated to sabotage stemming from Iraq’s parlous security situation, but instead were the product of poor initial construction, petty looting, a lack of any maintenance and simple neglect

Answer 2

todays Mercury News has and article on reconstruction in Iraq. roughly 20% of the billions spent has been effective.

the gulf coast has about the same success rate from what i read. parts of New Orleans are still without water or power.

Answer 3

Really? Have you been there? Do you really know anything about what you're talking about?

Every church in my area sends a mission to NOLA at least twice if not more a year. People in are still living in substidized housing in the Houston area and that is expected to be extended.

In the most prosperous and powerful country in the world, and a unemployment rate of 3-5%, there is no reason why NOLA shouldn't have bounced back by now. EVERY OTHER CITY EFFECTED HAS!

Answer 4

All three places, New Orleans, Afghanistan and Iraq are going absolutely lousy. Bush is failing on all accounts, yet there is so much unaccountability that his buddies are making off very well with the national treasury as the result. Why did Pelosi take impeachment off the table? Kucinich submitted papers for impeachment for Cheney. Kucinich has my vote. He's the only one that will stand up to these a*ssholes in the White House and to their corporate cronies as well. He's got the most integrity of all of those running.

Answer 5

Like a Tammany Hall project.

But don't think--even for a second--that the "Left Hand" isn't being plied with money.

As usual, We The People are getting mugged

Answer 6

Thats funny

Answer 7

Most of those billions are actually going in the pockets of the graft and corrupted officials in Iraq and in the U.S.A.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/19007

Answer 8

That's what you get when your bidding structure revolves around no-bid contracts or giving contracts to the lowest bidder.

Answer 9

It's obvious this administration has different priorities than most Americans have.

Answer 10

I think they spending it on a wall around the sunnies or something like that.