Are there any factual accounts of Iraq "success" stories regarding

[The_Casual_Observer]

the "reconstruction"? Freepers are always grousing about how none are reported, yet I wonder if there is anything to report, the freepers who complain don't ever offer any stories either.

[acmavm]

1. Well, the Iraqi government is whining that even after 2 billion dollars

being spent Baghdad is falling apart. Does that help?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. I'm thinking along the lines of a book of photos of completed

buildings, power plants, waterworks, schools, or whatever that would be proof positive that something was obtained by all this US tax money.

[acmavm]

3. I'm trying to help you out here. When the Iraqis said that all the schools

that Halliburton was paid to fix were still a wreck, when these poor people still don't have water or electricity, when we keep bombing the shit out of the place, I would be willing to bet my next check (and I can't afford to lose my check), that there ain't enough construction or repairs done in that country to fill a chapter of a book, let along a book. And I'm feeling certain here that I'm stretching it by saying 'chapter'.

I take that back. They have 14 military bases that are in pretty good shape.