[vpintheak]

Well the administration better put the boots to the contractors.

[Guillermo]

Here it comes, the criticism against Hagel, but, he's right.

Iraq can still be turned around, but up till now, this thing has been a disaster.

Jihadists are in firm control of several cities, which is not a good thing.

[Finalapproach29er]

Did you know Chuck Hagel was in Vietnam, too?


I'd vote for Hillary before that disloyal RINO.

[RightWhale]

Can't the Admin let some RFQs out, or did they forget how to spend money.

[Trippin]

I agree. This bureaucratic red tape and hand-wringing over the reconstruction of Iraq has to stop. The money has been approved, now start building and reconstructing for heavens sake. Surely they must have some idea by now what needs to be fixed/repaired/built.

[OldFriend]

Hagel and Lugar, perfect together. Two liars.

[Ranger]

The bulk of the 18 billion was hijacked to pay for military operatons that were out of budget about two months ago. If it hadn't happened we would have run out of war money. The $25 billion supplemental passed in August helped get us to the end of the fiscal year. But as it is, the contracts were held up (not by faceless bureaucrats, but by DoD's budget problems) and so now they are trying to paste over the cracks in the walls by officially redirecting money now that congress is in session, that they already took. Bottomline is that most of the Iraqi reconstruction money will never reach the Iraqis.