KAOSkins
January-16th-2008, 07:46 AM
Nnnaawww, tell me it ain't so George? I don't necessarily blame bushco for all this but they can't seem to help themselves when it comes to "manipulating" any news from Iraq. To be fair it happens the other way too. Are GAO brass holdovers from the Clinton admin or what?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/16/africa/rebuild.php
The Iraqi government had been severely criticized for failing to spend billions of dollars of its oil revenues in 2006 to finance its own reconstruction, but last September the Bush administration said Iraq had greatly accelerated such spending. By July 2007, the administration said, Iraq had spent some 24 percent of $10 billion set aside for reconstruction that year.
As General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador there, prepared in September to report to Congress on the state of the war, the economic figures were a rare sign of progress in Iraq's often dysfunctional government.
But in its report on Tuesday, the GAO said official Iraqi Finance Ministry records showed that Iraq had spent only 4.4 percent of the reconstruction budget by August 2007. It also said that the rate of spending had substantially slowed from the previous year.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/16/africa/rebuild.php
The Iraqi government had been severely criticized for failing to spend billions of dollars of its oil revenues in 2006 to finance its own reconstruction, but last September the Bush administration said Iraq had greatly accelerated such spending. By July 2007, the administration said, Iraq had spent some 24 percent of $10 billion set aside for reconstruction that year.
As General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador there, prepared in September to report to Congress on the state of the war, the economic figures were a rare sign of progress in Iraq's often dysfunctional government.
But in its report on Tuesday, the GAO said official Iraqi Finance Ministry records showed that Iraq had spent only 4.4 percent of the reconstruction budget by August 2007. It also said that the rate of spending had substantially slowed from the previous year.