Iraq Reconstruction

How Will New U.S. Admin. Deliver on U.S. Pledge to Iraqi Refugees?

Sheri Fink | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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Sheri Fink

President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Iraq, including one of the largest population displacements the world has seen in many decades.

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Iraq earmarks $15 billion for reconstruction

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion _ nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget _ to help rebuild the country's crumbling infrastruct...

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A Great Text for Reformers

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

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Amitai Etzioni

Anyone who believes that the United States can march into a country, topple its regime, and build a prosperous democracy, ought to read, study and read again Imperial Life in the Emerald City.

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Cholera Threatens Iraq Province Of Babel, Lack Of Clean Water Blamed

AFP | Posted 09.08.2008 | Home

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HILLA, Iraq - The central Iraqi province of Babel went on alert on Monday after four people were killed by cholera and 200 others were suspected of su...

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Government Payroll Sustaining Iraq Economy As Private Sector Falters

New York Times | Campbell Robertson | Posted 08.10.2008 | Home

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Hampered by years of violence, a decimated infrastructure, a lack of foreign investors and a flood of imports that undercut local businesses, Iraq's p...

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Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding Reconstruction While Iraq Reaps Oil Profits?

Rep. Maxine Waters | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home

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Rep. Maxine Waters

An American military occupation has not created meaningful political progress, and the Government of Iraq has allowed U.S. taxpayers to foot the bill for rebuilding Iraq.

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Baghdad Bling

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

The sheer audacity of this White House is beyond belief -- why are we permitting Iraq's government to get away with this highway robbery when it could easily shoulder more of the reconstruction burden?

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Iraq Suffers From Dirty Water, Fears About Cholera

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD — Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked the facility and killed the man...

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Iraqi Oil Disputes Threaten The Country's Stability

The Wall Street Journal | Gina Chon | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home

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BAGHDAD -- A political turf war is threatening the stability of Iraq's biggest cash cow: the embattled but so-far dependable South Oil Co. After chas...

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Kristof: Iraqi Children Our Moral Responsibility

New York Times | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

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The dirty little secret of the Iraq war isn't in Baghdad or Basra. Rather, it's found in the squalid brothels of Damascus and the poorest neighborhood...

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The Surge Is Working? Not If You Read the Latest GAO Report

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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Mitchell Bard

What the GAO report makes clear, above all else, is that contrary to what the mainstream media and the GOP would have you believe, the surge has not worked. It's time for the U.S. military to go home.

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Fixing Iraq: Cops for COIN

Adam Elkus | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home

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Adam Elkus

The time has come for the development of standing constabulary forces that can draw talented and intelligent individuals for overseas policing.

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Bush: We Could "Easily" Be In Iraq For Another 10 Years

Reuters | Posted 01.11.2008 | Home

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U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it ...

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New Iraq Approach Acknowedges Benchmarks Unmet

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Thomas Ricks | Posted 01.10.2008 | Home

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In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic offici...

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US Paid $32 Million For Iraqi Base That Was Never Built

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 12.14.2007 | Home

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The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pen...

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FBI Probes Iraq Inspector General On Misconduct Charges

Associated Press | Posted 12.14.2007 | Home

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The FBI is investigating the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, Justice Department officials said, following allegations of misconduct...

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A New Truman Commission: The Time is Now but Will the Senate Have the Guts to Do It?

Dina Rasor | Posted 09.21.2007 | Home

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Dina Rasor

It will take the Congress to establish a commission to start peel back the layers of fraud, fat and waste in this war and find out why the troops are still not getting what they need.

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