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Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008

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IN THE NEWS

As Iraq surplus rises, little goes into rebuilding
By James Glanz, New York Times – August 5

From 2005 to 2007, Iraq devoted only 1 percent of the operating expenses in its budget to maintaining reconstruction projects that had been built with either American or Iraqi money. That finding raised fresh questions over whether the huge investment in some of those projects would have any long-term impact. Like so many statistical measures from Iraq, the ones in the new report are likely to be used to support opposite positions on how much the United States should continue spending and how long it should stay in the country, said Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense in Washington [and Equal Justice Works Alumna].