A little Republican Hypocrisy?

Ya gotta love it. Today the Republicans are all so terribly concerned about the tax payers money and the national debt. Too bad they didn’t show that same concern when zillions of our dollars were going to contractors to rebuild Iraq. I think we all remember how well that worked out for us. Here’s a reminder in case you forgot. “Hard lesson: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience” a report on what went right and what went wrong in the reconstruction of Iraq.

More on this report, here from NY Times in December of 2008. The report has now been published.
“American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure.”

You can read the rest of the article here.

Were any Republicans paying attention at the time? Is anyone paying attention to this now? The reconstruction is still going on in Iraq and is there as much Republican oversight going on over that as is going on over this stimulus plan? I doubt it.