Your president has chanted the "progress" mantra so often that you'll no doubt be shocked, shocked to hear that:
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.
Well … is this a legitimate statistical sample?
Officials at the oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, said they had made an effort to sample different regions and various types of projects, but that they were constrained from taking a true random sample in part because many projects were in areas too unsafe to visit.
Apart from noting the obvious, that Inspectors General have a well-known liberal bias, never report the good news, and want the terrorists to win, let's pay attention to something else: We're batting .125 in the safe areas. Care to bet what the average is in the dangerous areas?
Not to worry, though. I'm sure Halliburton will be honoring all warranties, and will be right in to fix things up.
Heckuva job all around, Bushies.
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