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Is there anything these war criminals and corporate wh@res haven't screwed up? But hey, it's only $100B. That's barely a decent size bailout for the robber barons.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. efforts to rebuild Iraq have been a $100 billion failure, hampered by poor pre-invasion planning and ongoing turf wars, a federal report says.
"Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience," compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, says no single U.S. agency has ever been in charge of reconstruction efforts in Iraq, which, combined with unrealistic pre-war planning by the Bush administration, has led to the waste of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Sunday.
$100 billion... that could've done a lot of reconstruction here. How many mass transit systems, parks, bridges, roads and utility lines could've been created here at home where it's needed.
Since when is an op-ed piece published in the New York Times a newsworthy story? The MSM has been manufacturing its own news for years, and it's becoming even more obvious now.
NYT writes an op-ed piece, UPI reports it as a "news" story, pretty soon we will be hearing about a "prominant Republican" attacking the war. Within a few days the story will be picked up by AP, Reuters, and back again by the NYT.
Real reporting and journalism is clearly a thing of the past.
Since when is an op-ed piece published in the New York Times a newsworthy story? The MSM has been manufacturing its own news for years, and it's becoming even more obvious now. NYT writes an op-ed piece, UPI reports it as a "news" story, pretty soon we will be hearing about a "prominant Republican" attacking the war. Within a few days the story will be picked up by AP, Reuters, and back again by the NYT. Real reporting and journalism is clearly a thing of the past.
Have you read the SIGIR report? How would you characterize it? Do you seriously believe that you can "spin" your way out of the colossal right-wing boondoggle of Iraq? Disgrace and failure is all it is, I'm afraid...disgrace and failure that trickled down from the top...
NYT writes an op-ed piece, UPI reports it as a "news" story, pretty soon we will be hearing about a "prominant Republican" attacking the war. Within a few days the story will be picked up by AP, Reuters, and back again by the NYT.
Real reporting and journalism is clearly a thing of the past.
It was not an op-ed piece. Here is the description of the 2 people who wrote the article: James Glanz reported from Baghdad, and T. Christian Miller, of the nonprofit investigative Web site ProPublica, reported from Washington.
In other words, it was a real report (maybe Fox News does not do these against W and his clan - but they do have a slew of pro-W op-eds) which is being spun into an op-ed peice by some.
Since when is an op-ed piece published in the New York Times a newsworthy story? The MSM has been manufacturing its own news for years, and it's becoming even more obvious now.
NYT writes an op-ed piece, UPI reports it as a "news" story, pretty soon we will be hearing about a "prominant Republican" attacking the war. Within a few days the story will be picked up by AP, Reuters, and back again by the NYT.
Real reporting and journalism is clearly a thing of the past.
Except of course on "fair & balanced" F#X Nazi News. Direct from the White House PR hacks to Hannity's mouth.
$100 billion... that could've done a lot of reconstruction here. How many mass transit systems, parks, bridges, roads and utility lines could've been created here at home where it's needed.
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$100 billion... that could've done a lot of reconstruction here. How many mass transit systems, parks, bridges, roads and utility lines could've been created here at home where it's needed.
Build in America?
"NO, NO, NO!" the NeoConfuseds cry, "THAT would be SOCIALISM "
Throwing billion$ of no bid/no oversight contracts at their favored companies?
THAT they casually write-off as foreign policy.
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