A site that has several different monthes of press releases and stories on the reconstruction effort

Very good Red , my first posts say that they seem to be making up contradictory statements about the numbers and training abilities of Iraqi recruits , and you provide a link that contains (amongs other things) statements about the numbers and training of Iraqi recruits . .
Some nice releases there on reconstruction , and there has been some progress , but some of those releases (especially concerning schools and healthcare) are exactly the same as were released 2 years ago i.e. plans to carry out X amount of work .
You will notice if you visit the POC site that they talk of money spent , projects approved for start up and already commenced, yet remain silent on the proportion of "money spent" that has dissappeared , and "projects approved" that they no longer have money for , or "already commenced" where the work hasn't commenced because the contractor did a bunk with the money or the lack of security has prevented actual commencement. You have to read the US general auditor report for that .

BTW I do like the release about the police getting radios for some of their police cars .....wow police cars with radios , what a novel concept , welcome to the 21st century

(take note of the big bully's words that he will drive them to war with attacks).

That is one of the more worrying developments Kraxis , though I think the changes in the voting rules will do just as much to sideline any moderate voices amongst the Sunni Arabs and push the extremists to the fore .