From the McClatchy newspaper chain, an article in which Iraqi contractors say that the “security” budget in their contract with the CPA is actually the money they pay the insurgents not to kill or rip them off.
In other words, American funding is going right into the insurgents’ pockets.
From the Institute of Southern Studies, a report that less than 42 percent of the federal funding for Katrina reconstruction has been spent. One example: Washington allocated 16.7 billion in block grants for rebuilding, and only $1 billion had been spent as of March (after news of this leaked out, another $3.8 billion was released).

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