[news] The Robbery of Reconstruction

[Resist!ca]

Good news out of Baghdad: the Program Management Office, which oversees the 
$18.4bn in US reconstruction funds, has finally set a goal it can meet. Sure, 
electricity is below pre-war levels, the streets are rivers of sewage and more 
Iraqis have been fired than hired. But now the PMO has contracted the British 
mercenary firm Aegis to protect its employees from "assassination, kidnapping, 
injury and" - get this - "embarrassment". I don't know if Aegis will succeed in 
protecting PMO employees from violent attack, but embarrassment? I'd say 
mission already accomplished. The people in charge of rebuilding Iraq can't be 
embarrassed, because, clearly, they have no shame.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/6/27/92337/4400