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Saturday, December 13, 2008
The draft of a federal report by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Annotations are based on the review's findings. The draft was provided to reporters at The New York Times and ProPublica by two people outside the Inspector General's office who have read the draft. Full Story »
http://projects.nytimes.com/reconstruction
A Sad Mistake: To oversee post-war relief efforts, the Pentagon created the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Affairs, a brand-new agency put in charge only two months before the war began. The office, one of a series of ad-hoc reconstruction agencies, lasted only a short while after the invasion. While the office’s troubles have long been known, the inspector general's report provides new details on the depth of disagreements between the Pentagon and the reconstruction office’s director, retired general Jay Garner. General Garner told interviewers
that Mr. Rumsfeld believed the United States would spend less than $1 billion in nation building. The current U.S. spending total: $50 billion.
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