Reconstruction of Iraq

During the Bush Push into Baghdad roughly 100,000 tons of bombs fell on Iraqis. When the cordite fumes cleared the electrical system, water treatment plants, hospitals, and children were in even worse shape than they had been under Saddam.

In a bold and compassionate move, George "Moneybags" Bush proposed to spend billions of dollars in Iraq. This money was to be used shoring up the profits of Kellog, Brown, and Root and its parent company Halliburton as well as helping out many smaller American firms which -- through their own incompetence and corruption -- might otherwise be in danger of bankruptcy.

Setting Up The Show

Immediately after the US invasion Iraqis could not count on such simple things as drinkable water, refrigeration for food, a floor fan to alleviate the sweltering heat, or electric lights.

They were, in military parlance, fucked from both ends.

• The noble and humanitarian Iraq invasion sent raw sewage spilling into the rivers and many Iraqis found that when they turned on their water taps turds and pubic hair came out.
• The electrical grid was in negative capacity, meaning that it actually sucked electrons out of anything connected to it.
• Hospitals had to resort to using cellophane tape to mend major wounds such as evisceration and head amputations...and they had to use the same tape over and over as they could not get fresh supplies.
• Children could not go to school or, if they had been in the school when it was bombed, they could not get out of school. (Of course, in the latter case they were dead in any case.)

The First Act: Securing Essentials

That was the terrible state of affairs faced by the forces of Operation Iraq Liberation when they took control of the country. The forces of OIL responded to this crisis of human suffering as directed by the humanitarian concerns of the Supreme Leader, George "His Benevolence" Bush: by securing the oilfields and oil pumping facilities so Halliburton could get started supplying America with the black gold.

Major beneficiaries of the Iraq reconstruction effort.

Hospitals and schools were left to looters, except when they were seized for the use of oil company personnel and their paramilitary bodyguards. In fact, not even Saddam's arsenals and ammo magazines got much attention from the OIL troops as they hurried to get the Iraqi crude flowing again.

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Meanwhile, money poured into Iraq from the Reconstruct Iraq Freedom Fund. RIFF money went to such noble efforts as --

• supporting gambling trips to the Phillipines.
• building a new corporate headquarters for Gun 'Em Down Security Inc in Lonely Pucker, Texas.
• buying up Saddam's gold-plated toilet fixtures as a gift to the wife of the KBR vice-president.
• getting generators hooked up so Halliburton executives could run their air conditioners and jacuzzis.

The common Iraqi citizens felt so moved by the efforts of the American liberators they sent fifty schoolchildren to OIL headquarters simply to praise them. The children appeared in the courtyard of the Supreme Commander (Halliburton chief exec Carson J. Kashflow) and fell to their knees, weeping tears of pure joy.

Gun 'Em Down Security decided they were a security risk, and shot them all.

Second Act: Buckling Down to Get the Job Done

Halliburton, appointed by ex-CEO Dick Cheney as the prime contractor for delivering supplies to the OIL military coalition, acted promptly to shaft both the US Army and Iraqis. Buying diesel oil and gasoline cheaply from Kuwait, Halliburton sold it with a 500% markup. To be fair, Halliburton does have to pay $245,000 per year into Dick Cheney's retirement fund, and company accountants deduct this from profits as "necessary expenses for dealing with corrupt governments". While this is a reasonable assessment, it does not justify stealing fifteen million per month from the reconstruction effort.

Even as Halliburton was robbing the US taxpayer blind, the OIL coalition contracted with Bubba Jowls Outhouse Consructshun of Crawford, Texas, to build seven natural-gas fired elecricity generating plants in Iraq. At the same time, OIL rejected a proposal by PEMEX of Mexico to lay natural gas pipelines and instead hired Oil Pipes R Us, a failing company based in Asspimple, Texas, to lay bunker oil lines to the plants. Predictably, the gas-fired generators could not run on bunker oil; the contractors went home rich, and Iraqis had less electricity available than before.

Six of the seven plants have collapsed due to shoddy construction.

The seventh, abandoned and empty, is now used by Al Qaeda as a bomb-manufacturing facility.

Prominent American porker Lyndie England might be the most appropriate face of the American reconstruction effort in Iraq

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Meanwhile, Iraqi-born technicians who pointed out the, erm, minor flaws in the Bush reconstruction strategy were rewarded handsomely by being put in Abu Ghraib prison. Knowing the Muslim distaste for pigs, the official US Tormentors had prime US hogs like Lyndie England sit on the faces of helpless prisoners.

Throughout Iraq the noble forces of OIL have paid millions to have the Bush administration's handpicked contractors build substandard, incompetently designed water and sewage treatment facilities -- which, almost without exception, malfunction.

But the reconstruction was succeeding brilliantly at its real goals, with George Bush's personal net worth passing the $1,000,000 mark in May, 2005, and Dick Cheney passing the $5,000,000 mark a month later. Bechtel Corp, KBR, Aegis Defense, and Lockheed-Martin all made big money for "reconstructing" Iraq. And among individual Iraq war supporters who have made six-figure profits on the Iraq war are:

• Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, an early and loud war booster.
• Neil Livingstone, a former Senate aide who issued repeated public calls for going to war.
• Randy Scheunemann, a former Rumsfeld advisor who helped draft the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.
• Margaret Bartel, who managed federal money channeled to Chalabi's exile group, the Iraqi National Congress.
• K. Riva Levinson, a Washington lobbyist who received federal funds to drum up prewar support.
• Joe M. Allbaugh, who managed President Bush's 2000 campaign and helped set up New Bridge Strategies and Diligence to promote "business" in postwar Iraq.

Ringing Down the Curtain

Sixty percent of the water and sewage projects scheduled for reconstruction have been abandoned...or were never started. Faulty plumbing resulted in raw sewage flooding the floors of reconstructed schools. Thirty percent of the scheduled electrical plants were never started. Most of the rest don't work.

Iraqis are still getting shit for water, and an average of 2 hours of 6-volt electrical power per day. But the sensitive antennae of the Bush Administration have detected sagging support among Americans for pouring further money into Iraq. Figuring the con game is just about up, George "Christian Charity" Bush is preparing to abandon the reconstruction phase of the Iraq occupation and focus on killing as many Iraqis as possible before abandoning the country to the coming civil war and Islamic takeover.

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Breaking News (We Scooped the NY Times!)

New York 2/5/2006 (UncP)   

Columnist Paul Krugman of the New York Times, piggybacking on the news reported in this Uncyclopedia article, reports that "In fact, [the Iraq] reconstruction has failed....three years after the war began, oil production is well below prewar levels, Baghdad is getting only an average of 3.2 hours of electricity a day, and more than 60 percent of the water and sanitation projects have been cancelled."

But you read it HERE first! (Didn't you?) Uncyclopedia rocks!

Krugman goes on to note that America's would-be Marshall Plan in Iraq is shutting down with no plans to extend its funding. In ten years the great legacy of George's War will be clear: a cluster of Balkanized, perpetually warring states where Iraq used to be...and the biggest training ground for anti-Western terror the world will have ever seen. Thank God for the wise and farsighted leadership of George "Fuckup" Bush!

See Also

• George Bush: chronicle of greatness -- The master article in this series.

• American Commitment to the Rights of Man -- Analysis of the Bush administration's regard for the universal rights of man as described in the American Declaration of Independence.
• Cost schedule for buying the US government -- How much does it cost to buy 15 minutes with George Bush? What about Tom DeLay or Roy Blunt?
• NeoContract with America -- A precís of the Bush Administration's philosophy of government as regards fiscal policy, accountability to the people, and energy policy. Also touches on historical precedents, and the role of the Republican Party.
• NSA fisting -- An in-depth look at the procedures authorized by the Bush Administration for domestic surveillance of Americans.
• Operation Enduring Truth -- A report on the success of the campaign to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese Iraqis through use of paid propaganda.
• Search and Seizure -- An analysis of the administration's authorization of extra-judicial surveillance measures to be used against American citizens.
• US Fiscal Policy: Starving the Beast by Feeding It -- A look at the Bush fiscal policy and its implementation.