This is a graphic of Paid Military Contractors (PMCs) (click here). The reason for these people continually grew because the rebuilding effort never got off the ground. It's time to call it quits, the stories get ridiculous.
There was a recent poll stating a huge majority of Iraqi civilians want the USA out of Iraq. That is completely evident where civilians interface with the Bush Project in Iraq. The Iraqi people reject the rebuilding process.
Ann Garrels (click here) reported from Iraq the rebuilding was only successful when the projects were monitored by the contractors from within the Green Zone and Iraqis actually did the rebuilding. Where there were Americans performing the rebuilding the projects always failed or were targets of retaliation.
Frederick Barton, a post-conflict reconstruction expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says there was never a clear U.S. strategy for reconstructing Iraq. There was very little planning and the country wasn't stabilized before enormous projects got under way. Barton says there were too many agencies involved, instead of a single reconstruction "czar."
Many factories that were rebuilt around Iraq are now shuttered. Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation Paul Brinkley has spent much of the past year traveling around Iraq, trying to revitalize and spark international investment in those factories.
There is only one reason why the USA is still in Iraq without complete accountability and uncontrolled spending. That reason is a president afraid of 'the truth.' Bush is the 'tail' wagging the Legislature (The Will of the People), the dog ! If there are this many Americans opposing the veto then there are least that many that believe in impeachment.
May 8, 2007 6:38 p.m. EST
Matthew Borghese - AHN Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A new poll finds Americans disapprove of President George Bush's veto of the supplemental funding bill which would have set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
In an Opinion Research Corp. survey for CNN, 54 percent of Americans say they disapprove of the veto, versus the 44 percent that agreed with the decision.
After repeatedly telling Congress that he would not sign any bill which would set a date for American withdrawal. However, both the House and Senate passed a $124 billion spending bill which mandated American forces return home by April 2008.
As for how to move forward, of those that want Congress to pass a new bill, 57 percent want the timetable to go back to the Oval Office, but when asked separately, 61 percent would also approve of a new bill which does not contain the controversial timetable as well.
Matthew Borghese - AHN Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A new poll finds Americans disapprove of President George Bush's veto of the supplemental funding bill which would have set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
In an Opinion Research Corp. survey for CNN, 54 percent of Americans say they disapprove of the veto, versus the 44 percent that agreed with the decision.
After repeatedly telling Congress that he would not sign any bill which would set a date for American withdrawal. However, both the House and Senate passed a $124 billion spending bill which mandated American forces return home by April 2008.
As for how to move forward, of those that want Congress to pass a new bill, 57 percent want the timetable to go back to the Oval Office, but when asked separately, 61 percent would also approve of a new bill which does not contain the controversial timetable as well.
The Bush/Cheney administration has stated from the beginnings of their illegal war that the reconstruction of Iraq was paramount to the success of the war effort. They were right. In order for the illegal invasion to be 'appreciated' by the Iraqis they would have to allow the influence of the USA military in their country to stop the violence and allow the rebuilding. The Iraqi people never did. The truth of the failed Bush/Cheney strategy that has ruled that country causing huge civilian deaths was conducted for political capital in the USA. The Iraq War was ALWAYS a failure. Always. There has never been a reconstruction project that mattered to the Iraq people to find appreciation for the efforts of any American contingency, military or not, private or not. The Iraq War is a complete and utter failure and has been for four years now.
The USA Constitution has been abandoned by The Republican Party to allow a political venue of war while providing huge profits for their cronies. The USA Constitution demands impeachment but because there are 'enough' Republicans in both the House and Senate to discount that as a possiblity the American people are losing their children to an illegal war, accumulating huge debts and have to watch the civilians of Iraq 'survive' as refugees, die needlessly and live in impoverished conditions in a war ravaged land. How long are the Iraqis and the people of this nation going to continue to suffer at the hand of the greedy and corrupt? Forever? This can't be tolerated much longer. There has to be a resolve. The Neocon Republicans have the USA and Iraq by the throat to an end which will never resolve. The World Courts need to stop this insanty.
There is no 'war strategy' in Iraq. There never has been. It has been dressed and redressed, but, the issues are constant and so are the deaths and the death rates.
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
