[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20416]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      SHOCKED AT HOW AWFUL IRAQ IS

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Madam Speaker, the Iraq war has gone from shock and awe 
to shocked at how awful it is.
  On the heels of the public disclosure of the NIE estimates, today's 
Washington Post reports that the Baghdad Police College was so poorly 
constructed it might need to be demolished.
  Special Inspector for Iraq Reconstruction said, ``This is the most 
essential civil security project in the country. It is a failure. The 
Baghdad Police Academy is a disaster.''
  There are foundation problems, tile floors are warped beyond repair, 
faucets leak, toilet waste flooding all over the second and third 
floors.
  The Parsons Corporation did such a bad job with the $75 million in 
U.S. taxpayer money it was awarded to build the new facility, the whole 
facility may need to be torn down. The Persons Corporation received a 
$1 billion contract.
  $12 billion gone, wasted, unaccounted for in Iraq. But what is $12.5 
billion among friends? That wasted money follows a long line of other 
costly mistakes, including this Congress's refusal to hold anybody 
accountable.

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