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Middle Eastern Country Available
No Reserve!
This nation is sold AS IS, any questions should be asked BEFORE BIDDING, contact dubya@whitehouse.gov
Slightly used, but some infrastructure still intact, insurgency definitely in its last throes. Be the first in your neighborhood to own an actual oil producing country, it'll pay for itself in no time! Exciting opportunity as real fixer-upper, flowers and candy will be rained down upon you by grateful population. Guaranteed!
The Bush administration does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February, officials say.
The decision signals the winding down of an $18.4 billion U.S. rebuilding effort in which roughly half of the money was eaten away by the insurgency, a buildup of Iraq's criminal justice system and the investigation and trial of Saddam Hussein.
Just under 20 percent of the reconstruction package remains unallocated. When the last of the $18.4 billion is spent, U.S. officials in Baghdad have made clear, other foreign donors and the fledgling Iraqi government will have to take up what authorities say is tens of billions of dollars of work yet to be done merely to bring reliable electricity, water and other services to Iraq's 26 million people.
Mission Accomplished indeed.
Middle Eastern Country Available
No Reserve!
This nation is sold AS IS, any questions should be asked BEFORE BIDDING, contact dubya@whitehouse.gov
Slightly used, but some infrastructure still intact, insurgency definitely in its last throes. Be the first in your neighborhood to own an actual oil producing country, it'll pay for itself in no time! Exciting opportunity as real fixer-upper, flowers and candy will be rained down upon you by grateful population. Guaranteed!
The Bush administration does not intend to seek any new funds for Iraq reconstruction in the budget request going before Congress in February, officials say.
The decision signals the winding down of an $18.4 billion U.S. rebuilding effort in which roughly half of the money was eaten away by the insurgency, a buildup of Iraq's criminal justice system and the investigation and trial of Saddam Hussein.
Just under 20 percent of the reconstruction package remains unallocated. When the last of the $18.4 billion is spent, U.S. officials in Baghdad have made clear, other foreign donors and the fledgling Iraqi government will have to take up what authorities say is tens of billions of dollars of work yet to be done merely to bring reliable electricity, water and other services to Iraq's 26 million people.
Mission Accomplished indeed.
