Iraq Report Reveals Pentagon's Massive Fraud And Waste

Iraq Reconstruction Effort A $100 Billion Failure... Pentagon Put Out Inflated Measures Of Progress To Cover Up Failures... Colin Powell: Defense Department "Kept Inventing Numbers Of Iraqi Security Forces - The Number Would Jump 20,000 A Week!"

Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER
Published: December 14, 2008
An unpublished federal history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts the effort as crippled by poor planning, waste and deception, leading to a $100 billion failure.