Bush WON'T seek additional funds for Iraq reconstruction (Cut&Run?)

[kpete]

Bush won't seek additional funds for Iraq reconstruction
RAW STORY


The Bush administration does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February, officials tell the WASHINGTON POST in Monday's editions, RAW STORY has learned... Excerpts...


The decision signals the winding down of an $18.4 billion U.S. rebuilding effort in which roughly half of the money was eaten away by the insurgency, a buildup of Iraq's criminal justice system and the investigation and trial of Saddam Hussein.Just under 20 percent of the reconstruction package remains unallocated.

When the last of the $18.4 billion is spent, U.S. officials in Baghdad have made clear, other foreign donors and the fledgling Iraqi government will have to take up what authorities say is tens of billions of dollars of work yet to be done merely to bring reliable electricity, water and other services to Iraq's 26 million people.


"The U.S. never intended to completely rebuild Iraq," Brig. Gen. William McCoy, the Army Corps of Engineers commander overseeing the work, told reporters in a recent news conference. In an interview this past week, McCoy said: "This was just supposed to be a jump-start."

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Bush_wont_seek_additional_funds_for_0101.html

[C_U_L8R]

1. Another "What ME Worry"

Moment

[sam sarrha]

2. cut and run and blame it on the 'wite flag democrats'

[thefloyd]

3. Also another Rich kid moment

Make a mess and let someone else clean up. However, Bushco most definitely needed to let Iraqis rebuild their country simply for jobs. Hopefully the insurgency will be reduced based on hope of a brighter future. Fuck that will not happen

[salin]

4. Nothing new - just keeping it out of the budget - and thus out of deficit

numbers. For some reason the annual deficits include the regular budget, but exclude all of the (twice a year) emergency billions for Iraq spending bills. Just one more way to pretend they aren't spending us as deeply into debt.

[FloridaPat]

5. They're cutting of Brechtel? And Halliburton? Let the oil fields rot?

Sure. Why are we investigating Sadam? I thought we had all the goods on him. Where is all that oil money going? Iraqi's income has doubled since the invasion?

[this_side_up]

6. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Bushco

take 14.1 billion (or was it 9.1?) of the 18 billion and sink it in the US stock market? What kind of return did
they get?