As you go to the polls, consider this item. According to Paul Krugman at the NY Times, reconstruction is at an end in Iraq. The $21 billion allocated for reconstruction the past three years has been spent. A lot of that money has been spent on security and a lot has been simply wasted. Bechtel, one of the big inside players, is going home. No new money is in the pipe.
Emblematic of the complete failure of der Decider's Iraq gambit is Iraq's new police academy built at a cost to the American taxpayer of $75 million by Parson's Corp. The academy is so badly constructed that feces and urine leak from the ceilings. Now I ask you in all honesty, would you risk your life for somebody that craps on your head?
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