Whatever happened to:
"The oil revenues of Iraq could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years�We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.
- Paul Wolfowitz, [Congressional Testimony, 3/27/03]
"Iraq, unlike Afghanistan, is a rather wealthy country. Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction."
-- White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer, 2/18/03
Aside from the "shock and awe" of the initial invasion which led to the "mission accomplished" declaration by Bush (4 years ago today), nearly every assumption of this administration has been wrong and their errors magnified by incompetence, mismanagement and/or corruption.
Numerous reconstruction failures and charges of fraud as identified by the SIGIR costing the US taxpayers $billions, thousands of US weapons and $millions of US funds missing, questionable success in the training of Iraqi security forces (
Pentagon prevents military officers from testifying before House panel) Iraqi children facing the worst health crisis in 50 years and more than 1 million Iraqis displaced from their homes (
the big picture), a government that is barely functional that has not met one US benchmark in 2+ years.....
Has this administration done ANYTHING right since they "successfully" invaded Iraq?