Attacks "delay" Iraq rebuilding.

[tmooses]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4569833.stm

It's stories like this that show how incompetent the neocons who conned
their ways into this war are. Their record of failure is rewarded with
promotions-it's unbelievable how by using the tragedy of 9/11 they deceitfully convinced the public at large how this war and occupation was to unfold.

"Too much money earmarked for rebuilding Iraq is being diverted to tackle security demands, the US official in charge of post-war reconstruction says.

William Taylor, who heads the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, said rebuilding the country was a costly and dangerous business."
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"Mr Taylor disclosed that 295 American contractors and their security guards had been killed since April last year.

He said there was "a long way to go" in providing adequate services to Iraqis."

I think we remember this from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz:
“There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”

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"In 2004, a year after the fall of Saddam Hussein, some 22,000 households were questioned by the UN about their lives.

The survey found that only just over a third of households were connected to a sewage network - and that almost a quarter of young children were chronically malnourished."