Irak 11

Mede dankzij de verwoede pogingen van onze bondgenoten om de 'hearts and minds' van de Irakezen te winnen, hebben de Amerikanen nu een shiietisch pro-Iran bewind in Bagdad aan de macht geholpen. Het zal dan ook niemand verwonderen dat de regering Bush in de toekomst geen geld meer heeft voor de wederopbouw van Irak. Na het land te hebben verwoest, moeten anderen het weer gaan opbouwen. De Washington Post bericht: 'BAGHDAD -- The Bush administration does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February, officials say. 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.' Lees verder:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/01/AR2006010101072.html?referrer=email&referrer=email