Tuesday, August 28, 2007
At least somebody's benefitting from the Iraqi redevelopment moneyBesides Halliburton and Bechtel, I mean. McClatchy reports in Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money by Hannah Allam 08/27/07:Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.Who knows how much of this is incompetence and how much may be part of some complicated web of alliances? Back the Shi'a against the Sunnis, back the Sunnis against Al Qa'ida in Iraq (AQI), back the pro-Iranian Shi'a against the nationalist Shi'a, back the Sunnis (and AQI?) against Iran ... if it would change anything, I would hope somebody at least has a clear strategy on all this. But we know Dick Cheney's in charge, so why bother hoping for the impossible? Tags: iraq war | +Save/Share | | |
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