| One things is clearly going well for many people in Iraq. Business - or the ability for many companies to plunder the country and make truck-loads of cash for nothing.
Wolfowitz said pre-war: ''doing everything possible in our planning now to make post-war recovery smoother and less expensive.'' Where's Wolfowitz now - President of the WORLD BANK!
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Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist | April 18, 2006
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ed...uction_in_iraq/
Of $20.7 billion in Iraqi bank accounts and oil revenues seized by the Coalition Provisional Authority in the US-led invasion of Iraq, $14 billion was given out for reconstruction but tens of millions of dollars were unaccounted for. A year ago, an audit by the inspector general found no evidence of work done or goods delivered on 154 of 198 contracts. Sixty cases of potential swindles are under investigation.
Because of the way the United States set things up after the invasion, contractors are immune from prosecution by Iraqis. And even when firms are prosecuted, the millions of dollars in fines go to the US Treasury, not the Iraqi people. It amounts to two invasions. First the bombs. Then the banks. |
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