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JABBS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 02:57 PM
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Democrats, Moderate Republicans Reverse Conservatives' Plan To Eliminate Iraq Inspector General
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As JABBS noted last month, Congressional conservatives had set the earlier termination date at the behest of the Bush administration, presumably to remove the source of a series of audit reports that have been critical of the administration's efforts.

At the time, it was clear that Democrats -- who support such fact-finding missions over empty conservative spin that money is being spent wisely -- supported the inspector general, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 03:08 PM
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1. The News Hour on PBS did a report on this last night. There has
been an enormous waste of money on these reconstruction projects and very little to show for it. The full PBS report is here:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec06/construction_11-15.html
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