Sorry; we quit. It's your problem now.

[Sauron]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010101072.html

U.S. Has End in Sight on Iraq Rebuilding

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, January 1, 2006; Page A01


BAGHDAD -- The Bush administration does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February, officials say. The decision signals the winding down of an $18.4 billion U.S. rebuilding effort in which roughly half of the money was eaten away by the insurgency, a buildup of Iraq's criminal justice system and the investigation and trial of Saddam Hussein.

Just under 20 percent of the reconstruction package remains unallocated. When the last of the $18.4 billion is spent, U.S. officials in Baghdad have made clear, other foreign donors and the fledgling Iraqi government will have to take up what authorities say is tens of billions of dollars of work yet to be done merely to bring reliable electricity, water and other services to Iraq's 26 million people.

[Carnivale Ed]

Is that you, alphamale?

[Sauron]

Originally Posted by Carnivale Ed

Is that you, alphamale?

Shut up, fuckwad.

edited to add: but if you turn my golden ring up on its end, it kinda does look like a circular saw, doesn't it?

[Carnivale Ed]

Nice to see you've found yourself a sockpuppet.

[Sauron]

Originally Posted by Carnivale Ed

Nice to see you've found yourself a sockpuppet.

I had no choice but to get a sockpuppet.
None of your liberal pussy asses wanted to have an honest debate.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by the article

roughly half of the money was eaten away by the insurgency, a buildup of Iraq's criminal justice system and the investigation and trial of Saddam Hussein.

What was the original budget, do we know? How did the Bush admin intend to use that money when they first asked for it? Also, what does spent on the insurgency mean? Rebuilding funds were spent on anti-insurgent military operations? On training Iraqi security forces?