Time Also Running Out on Iraq Rebuilding

Of course, we are the ones who leveled much of the country, with Halliburton et al involved in bombing plans so they could cherry pick what they bid on to rebuild. Unbelievable.

But anyhoo... from the AssPress:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In their makeshift offices in a former Baghdad palace, a small army of American builders and engineers, oilmen and budgeteers is working overtime on last-minute projects to help reconstruct Iraq.

Their time is running short, their money running out.

After three years in which the U.S. government allocated more than $20 billion for Iraq reconstruction, a bill now making its way through Congress adds only $1.6 billion this year, just $100 million of it for construction — not for building schools or power stations, but for prisons.

Does the sharp cut in aid surprise and disappoint the planners here? "Probably both," said Michael P. Fallon, programs chief for the major U.S. reconstruction agency here.

Like we're not breaking new stuff everyday and the electricity still rarely works, although it flowed fine under Saddam. Go figure.