Iraqi Reconstruction… Wha Happened?

Good eye, CJR’s Gal Beckerman, highlighting a much-overlooked bit of news that appeared in Friday’s USA Today:

The government has slipped a noose around the $21 billion program that, according to the article, was supposed to “fix or build schools, roads, clinics, ports, bridges, government offices, phone networks, power plants and water systems.”

Also in the how-to-blow-a-trillion-bucks department:? Warren Olney discussed estimates that the U.S. will spend over one trillion dollars on the Iraq campaign on PRI’s To the Point (listen).

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