News Source: Iraq Updates
| 11 months ago
According to the report, based on some 500 interviews and more than 600 audits, inspections and investigations, nearly 117 billion dollars had been spent on Iraq reconstruction by mid-2008. "The hard figures on basic services and industrial...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 11 months ago
A draft report from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction documents in 513 pages the shameful history of inept, corrupt and failed U.S. efforts to rebuild Iraq after the 2003 invasion. The official report will not appear...
News Source: National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
All Things Considered , December 14, 2008 · A draft of an official history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq details Pentagon efforts, beginning before the 2003 invasion, to resist reconstruction of the country. The report also says the Bush...
News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald
| 11 months ago
A detailed official history of the U.S. effort to reconstruct Iraq after Saddam Hussein's overthrow in 2003 blamed its failings on "blinkered and disjointed" prewar planning, a deadly insurgency and wasteful and ill-managed contracting. The 500-plus...