"The process of transferring projects to Iraq 'worked for a while,' Bowen said.
But then the new government took over and installed its finance minister, Bayan
Jabr, who has been a continuing center of controversy in his various government
posts and is formally in charge of the transfers. 'After Jabr took over, that
process ceased to function,' Bowen said.
In fact, in the first two quarters of 2007, Bowen said, his inspectors found significant problems in all but two of the 12 projects they examined after the United States declared those projects completed."
At least when we operated the Marshall plan the peoples of Europe weren't undermining their own future for personal political gains. The more I hear about Iraq, the closer I get to thinking that we should just leave them with the mess that they are in. I have not crossed over yet, I do think that we should stay until the country is stable, for a number of reasons, but this makes me doubt that.
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