Iraq - Slow progress with Iraq reconstruction, Baghdad sewage plant offers example of problems.

Afghanistan - Taliban reasserting control of Afghanistan

And, January 17, 2002
Secretary of State Colin Powell, the most senior U.S. official to visit Afghanistan in 25 years, promised Thursday the United States would help rebuild the country and wipe out the "contamination" of terrorism.

Followed by George Walker Bush - Presidential speech, July 30, 2004
Today, Afghanistan is a rising democracy, an ally in the war on terror, a place where many young girls now go to school for the first time, and America and the world are safer. (Applause.)

And finally, Dionne Warwick - "This is where those promises, promises end
I don't pretend that what was wrong can be right - - - "

Arf (I guess they lied, didn't they? Big time, Bow, big time!)