Blatant Incompetence that leads to dying

Billions wasted rebuilding something we shouldn't have to rebuild and then to learn a lot of those billions were wasted due to incompetence and fraud. One of the reasons why the insurgency continues is because of this incompetence and fraud and it's created situations that lead to the death of our troops. The Iraqi people are frustrated after three years of what they've been left with so they either join the insurgency or sympathize with it. Between the corruption and the fraud committed by L. Paul Bremer, George Bush and on down to Halliburton, our soldiers and marines in Iraq are sitting ducks.

Iraq Rebuilding Badly Hobbled, U.S. Report Finds The first official history of the $25 billion American reconstruction effort in Iraq depicts a program hobbled from the outset by gross understaffing, a lack of technical expertise, bureaucratic infighting, secrecy and constantly increasing security costs, according to a preliminary draft. The document, which begins with the secret prewar planning for reconstruction and touches on nearly every phase of the program through 2005, was assembled by the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction and debated last month in a closed forum by roughly two dozen experts from outside the office. A person at the forum provided a copy of the document, dated December 2005, to The New York Times. The inspector general's office, whose agents and auditors have been examining and reporting on various aspects of the rebuilding since early 2004, declined to comment on the report other than to say it was highly preliminary.