That's The Way the Cookie Crumbles
Via the NYT:
In other words, the "happy stories" the Administration tried to push, the tales the President's supporters said the American Public weren't hearing, aren't the rosy pictures they were made to be. Ipso-facto: another lie and another example of half-assed governing.
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance,
apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.
The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success — in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections — were no longer working properly.
The inspections ranged geographically from northern to southern Iraq and covered projects as varied as a maternity hospital, barracks for an Iraqi special forces unit and a power station for Baghdad International Airport.
In other words, the "happy stories" the Administration tried to push, the tales the President's supporters said the American Public weren't hearing, aren't the rosy pictures they were made to be. Ipso-facto: another lie and another example of half-assed governing.
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