Taking Iraq's Contracting Lessons to Afghanistan

In the past eight years, the United States has allocated $51 billion to rebuild and stabilize Afghanistan. But tracking that money sometimes seems as challenging as finding the leaders of the Taliban.

Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, tells the Huffington Post Investigative Fund that the kind of waste that occurred with reconstruction funds in Iraq could also be happening in Afghanistan.

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• President Bush
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• Wartime contracting
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[dieselphiend]

Ya know.....I admire the HP, but they are skirting the issue here. We are not in Afghanistan for Democracy. We are not in Afghanistan to "rebuild" it.... Our interests and our actions go no further than oil and natural gas. Thats it. We justify this by being the "World Police". It is a farce. There is ten, to twenty trillion dollars worth of fossil fuels in those old USSR satellite countries. Think about that for a second. Thats the type of money that corrupts absolutely, no but's about it.