The Iraqi Nation has oil income. If the Iraqi government is not stable enough to finish projects, it is not the problem of the USA military.

The picture below is from The New York Times and the article is at the title to this entry.

The people of the United States of America has spent billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollar on assisting Iraq. We did it with the sincerest of wishes to help the people there.

If Iraq is so unstable it cannot accomplish something as valuable as a children's hospital within a reasonable period of time (four years being far too long compared to the need of the people there), then we aren't going to accomplish it in a lifetime.

Those are NOT our structures and if they fall VICTIM to sqaundering resources to complete them, employ the people and improve the life of Iraqi children it falls on the shoulders of the Central Government.

We are finished in Iraq. If 'contractors' want to remain behind to work for the government there then they are welcome to do so, but, we aren't paying their salaries anymore either!

A construction worker at the site of the Basra Children's Hospital in southern Iraq. Its completion has been delayed by more than four years, and it is still not ready.



...But there are growing concerns among American officials that Iraq will not be able to adequately maintain the facilities once the Americans have left, potentially wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and jeopardizing Iraq’s ability to provide basic services to its people....