"Bricks" Of Money Used As Footballs During US Iraq Reconstruction... Billions Possibly Wasted...

"Bricks" Of Money Used As Footballs During US Iraq Reconstruction... Billions Possibly Wasted...

The United States has spent more than a quarter of a trillion dollars during its three years in Iraq, and more than $50 billion of it has gone to private contractors hired to guard bases, drive trucks, feed and shelter the troops and rebuild the country.

It is dangerous work, but much of the $50 billion, which is more than the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security, has been handed out to companies in Iraq with little or no oversight.

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