4/22/2004

Raed speaks. You listen!

Iraqi blogger Raed has another dispatch today.

Over a year, and no one can name a single success for the American administration in Iraq?
I mean? I really try to find something bright?

That's a bad sign. You should read the whole thing, he goes into detail about what he sees the US doing. Stuff like...

The only thing happened is ?rehabilitating? some schools by Bechtel, and let me tell u more about it?
Bechtel charged around $75,000 per school, and gave the contracts to Iraqi sub-contractors, the Iraqi sub-contractors gave to other Iraqi sub-sub-contractors, and the sub-sub-contractors painted the schools, fixed the bathrooms, changed the broken windows and put some light bulbs, the thing that cannot cost more than $7,500 (around fifteen million Iraqi Dinars). Rehabilitation was poor and extremely costly; it was the first corruption story that destroyed the credibility of the plans of reconstruction.

Read Raed.