January 31, 2007


F*ck police training! Pool partay!!

Millions in Iraq reconstruction aid wasted, investigators say. Like on 'luxury trailers' and an Olympic-size swimming pool.

Tens of millions of dollars have been wasted in Iraq reconstruction aid, some of it on an Olympic-size swimming pool ordered up by Iraqi officials for a police academy that has yet to be used, investigators say.

The quarterly audit by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, is the latest to paint a grim picture of waste, fraud and frustration in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has cost taxpayers more than $300 billion.

Fun fact: Bowen's office was "nearly eliminated last month by administration-friendly Republicans in Congress."

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