This is what we're building in Iraq
Are you surprised? I'm not.
And here at home, things aren't much better. Republicans in Congress are busy trying to do Bush's bidding by gutting funding for everything from veterans' benefits to Pell Grants and stamping their approval on his domestic spying and torture programs. The conservative agenda has been the real disaster. It's time we changed direction and charted a new course for our country. That begins with electing a Democratic congress.
A $75 million project to build the largest police academy in Iraq has been so grossly mismanaged that the campus now poses health risks to recruits and might need to be partially demolished, federal investigators have found.(Emphasis mine). There's hardly any commentary I can add to this article that does it justice - it really speaks for itself. Invading Iraq was a truly awful idea to begin with, but on top of that, the occupation of Iraq has been horribly mismanaged by the Bush administration.
The Baghdad Police College, hailed as crucial to U.S. efforts aimed at preparing Iraqis to take control of the country's security, was so poorly constructed that feces and urine rained from the ceilings in student barracks. Floors heaved inches off the ground and cracked apart. Water dripped so profusely in one room that it was dubbed "the rain forest."
"This is the most important civil security project in the country — and it's a failure," said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an independent office created by Congress. "The Baghdad police academy is a disaster."
And here at home, things aren't much better. Republicans in Congress are busy trying to do Bush's bidding by gutting funding for everything from veterans' benefits to Pell Grants and stamping their approval on his domestic spying and torture programs. The conservative agenda has been the real disaster. It's time we changed direction and charted a new course for our country. That begins with electing a Democratic congress.
