GEN. McCAFFREY on Meet The Press

[serryjw]

Here is the entire transcript if you missed it BUT this is a great quote.....

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So the question is political primarily. Look, unemployment is a bigger problem than the AIF, the Iraqi insurgent force. I think that’s the other challenge. We spent 18 billion on economic reconstruction. There’s only 1.6 billion left in the pipeline. Tim, when that money runs out, in my judgment, we just lost the war. We’ve got to sustain the economic reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, for that matter.
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Where the f*ck is $16 BILLION?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13189411/

[Kagemusha]

1. It got frittered away everywhere but real reconstruction

because the money had you know, actual accounting safeguards, which the administration opposed vehemently...

So they just started spending lots of it on security to support reconstruction, and before you know it, there's no more money for ACTUAL reconstruction, because it went to security for reconstruction.

And so, Congress' bid for oversight is frustrated.

[bridgit]

2. had it on dvr, watched it twice, in between all the lines he spoke...

he didn't have allot of good news about the conditions in irag...or for that matter: afghanistan, he's gung ho but seems straight forward about what is, and what isn't

[mmonk]

3. There's a new palace.

[Selatius]

4. You mean that giant building they're constructing called the US Embassy?

I wonder if there's a hellipad on top of that building. If there is, we might have to exit from Baghdad when it falls the same way we exited from Saigon when it fell to North Viet Nam.