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Millions wasted in Iraq reconstruction aid

Don't blame me. I voted for Al Gore and John Kerry.

Millions wasted in Iraq reconstruction aid
Quarterly audit paints grim picture of fraud, frustration

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool, investigators say.

The quarterly audit by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, is the latest to paint a grim picture of waste, fraud and frustration in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has cost taxpayers more than $300 billion and left the region near civil war.

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Meanwhile, 3,081 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Just think....they died so that George Bush could squander away millions of dollars to line the pockets of contractors that supported his election campaign.

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