A new U.S. government report has found that much of the U.S. taxpayer
money used for Iraq’s reconstruction has likely been squandered. In what
has been called their final audit report, the Office of the Special
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Funds pinpointed a number of
accounting weaknesses that put "billions of American taxpayer dollars at
risk of waste and misappropriation" in the largest reconstruction
project of its kind in U.S. history. The report concluded the precise
amount lost to fraud and waste can never be known. While much of Iraq is
still struggling to recover from the 2003 invasion and occupation, the
country’s oil sector is quickly expanding with the help of foreign
investors including Exxon Mobil and BP. We’re joined by Greg Muttitt,
whose new book, "Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq,"
takes a close look at how energy interests played a crucial role in the
U.S. invasion. "They created a disaster because there were constantly
U.S. interests behind it," Muttitt says.
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