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  The Iraq Rebuilding Debacle
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/wo...rtner=homepage
  My Mood: Read this before, it really sickens me that we are spending 100K per day for absolutely nothing..when will America wake up and start telling the autocrats in DC to stop the BS, and get on with it. "The Fatah project went ahead despite warnings from experts that it could not succeed because the underground terrain was shattered and unstable. It continued chewing up astonishing amounts of cash when the predicted problems bogged the work down, with a contract that allowed crews to charge as much as $100,000 a day as they waited on standby. The company in charge engaged in what some American officials saw as a self-serving attempt to limit communications with the government until all the money was gone."