More Corruption and Stealing by Bush Administration

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The Bush Administration wants Congress to approve $10.6 billion for security and reconstruction in Afghanistan, but here’s the problem: we already have a pretty good idea of how that money is going to be spent. As recent reports indicate—and based on the U.S. government’s track record thus far, most of the funds will go toward contractors and private companies that will make a killing on the contracts and have very little to show for it in the end.

It’s doubtful that the money will go where it’s most needed—to help alleviate the suffering of the almost 2.5 million drought-stricken Afghan people caught up in the escalating war between the Taliban and the United States.
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