US seeks funds to build prisons in Iraq

[w8liftinglady]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-03-01T000719Z_01_N28225005_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-REBUILDING.xml
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is winding down its $20 billion reconstruction program in Iraq and the only new rebuilding money in its latest budget request is for prisons, officials said on Tuesday

[rodeodance]

1. NO MORE MONEY

[rodeodance]

2. building fences, burying lines. etc--shows 'defense"--not new projects.

....Among other budget requests was $287 million to improve security for Iraq's oil and electricity sectors, which involved burying pipelines, putting up fences and watchtowers and training guards, said Jeffrey.

[BattyDem]

3. Oh good ... let's lock up MORE Iraqis ...

THAT will win their hearts and minds! :sarcasm:

[undergroundpanther]

5. Fuck

Torture the world..

Goddamn neocon are like addicts addicted to their own psychopathic fantasies of world domination and torture.

I hope they NEVER get their slimy grubby hands on more money for more prisons to torture more people.
Fucking sadistic pieces of shit.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. "let freedom reign!"

"What, Me worry?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. "This is the one bit of construction we will be doing..."

State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey told reporters he was asking Congress for $100 million for prisons but no other big building projects were in the pipeline for the department's 2006 supplemental and 2007 budget requests for Iraq, which total just over $4 billion.

"This is the one bit of construction we will be doing -- $100 million for additional bed capacity for the Iraqi legal system," he said.

Eventually, the Iraqis would take more detainees now in U.S. custody and more space was needed, Jeffrey said, adding that money would also be set aside to increase the number of prosecutors and "corrections advisers."

"We have another program to continue support, protection and hardening of facilities and such for the judges who are exposing their lives," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060301/ts_nm/iraq_rebuilding_dc_1&printer=1

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Outrageous!