Hard Lessons: the Iraq Reconstruction Experience

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Hard Lessons: the Iraq Reconstruction Experience is written by Stuart W. Bowen and published by DIANE Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1437912745 (ISBN 10) and 9781437912746 (ISBN 13).

A combination of poor planning, weak oversight and greed cheated U.S. taxpayers and undermined American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $51 billion for projects in Iraq, including training the Iraqi army and police and rebuilding Iraq's oil, electric, justice, health and transportation sectors. Many of the projects did not succeed, partly because of violence in Iraq and friction between U.S. officials in Washington and Iraqi officials in Baghdad. The U.S. gov¿t. "was neither prepared for nor able to respond quickly to the ever-changing demands" of stabilizing Iraq and then rebuilding it. This report reviews the problems in the war effort, which the Bush admin. claimed would cost $2.4 billion. Charts and tables.