Surging profits in Iraq, that is. A 79 BILLION surplus in Iraq and we’re still paying for everything?
In one comparison, the United States has spent $23.2 billion in the critical areas of security, oil, electricity and water since the 2003 invasion, the report said. But from 2005 through April 2008, Iraq has spent just $3.9 billion on similar services.
And the Iraqi Government doesn’t seem to even appreciate the reconstruction already completed.
And in another troubling sign, the report said that from 2005 to 2007, Iraq devoted only 1 percent of the operating expenses in its budget to maintaining reconstruction projects that had been built with either American or Iraqi money. That finding raised fresh questions over whether the huge investment in some of those projects would have any long-term impact.
This war has been a disaster from the beginning, and the only ones truly paying a price are the soldiers and the American and Iraqi people. But I’d bet someone(s) is getting rich.
Come on, Bush/McCain supporters. Defend this.