The US spent $60 billion rebuilding Iraq after the 2003 war. There is virtually nothing to show for the money. Most of the money seems to have been stolen by US defense contractors.

submitted by HibikiBlackCaudillo from publicintegrity.org

all 5 comments
sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun

[–]AnarchySpeach 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So the money was spent as intended: As another way of moving massive amounts of wealth to groups of soulless elites through abuse of taxes while average people foot the bill.

[–]Danimal4NU 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Depressing how true this is.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lot of people know that the US uses a lot of tax money on military budget so I think this is a good historical record of how that money was used by the government.

The US spent $60 billion rebuilding Iraq after the 2003 war. There is virtually nothing to show for the money. Most of the money seems to have been stolen by US defense contractors.

[–]hennaojichan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Halliburton got a large chunk of the money.

[–]VirgilGriff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US should've either done nothing, or gone in, killed/displaced the natives, and colonized the land. If we had done that then Iraq today would be a booming up-and-coming land of promise, where US citizens could emigrate to to make their fortune in a new land of risk and reward. That's been the only successful model of taking over native populations. Otherwise you get what we have now: an excuse to redistribute money between elites while breeding new generations of terrorists and people that have zero respect or understanding of our culture or way of life.