Part of George W. Bush’s plan to achieve victory and peace in Iraq is to get the Iraqi government to accept responsibility for completed American reconstruction projects. The problem with the plan is that the Iraqi government doesn’t want to play along. Of 2,797 completed reconstruction projects that the American people have paid billions of dollars for, the Iraqi government is only willing to take on responsibility for 435 projects. For the rest, the Iraqi government says that the Americans will have to take care of them itself, or figure out an alternative plan.
If the Iraqi government established by the American occupation won’t even go along with the American efforts to reconstruct Iraq, how are we supposed to achieve victory and peace in Iraq? Well, the Bush White House doesn’t have an answer to that question.
(Source: New York Times, August 28, 2007)
