The Pentagon's home-country contractor management problems have only been exacerbated by its work in Iraq. While the agency secretly pays Iraqi journalists to write 'good news stories' about all the schools and clinics that have been rehabilitated, much of Iraq's drinking water remains unsafe, raw sewage runs in the streets, electricity output is below pre-invasion levels, and the increased oil production that neoconservative war boosters claimed was going to pay for the country's reconstruction is nowhere to be seen.
Whether Condoleeza Rice can succeed where Donald Rumsfeld has failed remains to be seen.
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