Reconstruction in Iraq

CPT Derick Quinlan
commanding 116th Engineer Company (CSE) frames it differently saying, "Iraq is a substandard place, we are not rebuilding Iraq, we are building it."

Business Day reports "Nearly 60,000 Iraqis working on reconstruction".

While just outside Falluja, ENR reports:

"By mid-July, we will have over $100 million in contracts under way in Al Anbar, on 188 projects," says Rear Adm. Charles R. Kubic, commander of the MEG and the 1st Naval Construction Division. The group’s responsibilities cover a small portion of the $18.4 billion in U.S. funding now allocated for some 2,300 reconstruction task orders identified across all of Iraq, but far more than Kubic expected when the war began. "At most, I thought we’d have $10 million to $20 million under contract," he says.
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