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U.S. money, Iraqi reconstruction

Before he left Iraq, Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of USACE Lt. Gen. Van Antwerp talks about what went well, what could have been done differently and what engineering and reconstruction support will remain in Iraq as U.S. forces draw down to 50,000 end-August 2010.

By Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Published December 1, 2009

Ten percent of the more than $50 billion in U.S. funded reconstruction projects in Iraq have been administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

It hasn’t been easy. Nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort here has been dogged by critics of faulty planning and budgeting or projects that came in sub-par or over-budget.

USACE’s Gulf Region Division is no exception: an audit this year cited GRD for its part in cost overruns and underperformance of its subcontractor Kellogg, Brown & Roo...

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