Which is murderously shameful - consider *U.S.*
forces are lacking quite a bit *still* - and it
ain't gonna get no better, folks ...
> ** Of the $18.4 billion in reconstruction funds allocated last year by
Congress, the US has spent only $1.7 billion.
Well, no - the interest on that money is going
into a lot of deep pockets - and it may never
*be* spent in Iraq .... 'cause who is watching
the watchers ?
> ** Only 33 percent of Iraqis think they're better off now than before the
war, as a Gallup poll discovered.
Yes, indeed, and that 33 percent includes the
ones who *don't live* in Iraq because they
have homes and apartments all over the world -
they *own* those oil wells and the people who
*work* for them. Which just let to another
thought about financing the last shenanigan-
filled election ...
> "They say the war is over," wrote the Iraqi journalist Abbas Ahmed Ibrahim,
in a dispatch from Falluja that captures his country's anxious despair. "But
there is no peace."
Which is the anxious despair of those who
*believed* American/Americans could 'fix'
anything. And are discovering there are
'fixers' and there are 'fixers' - and right now
Americans are getting 'fixed' (well, there is
another f-word that describes it better)
along with the Iraqis ....