This is one Christmas gift U.S. taxpayers don’t need.
Construction of a $30 million dining facility at a U.S. base in Iraq is
scheduled to be completed Dec. 25. But the decision to build it was
based on bad planning and botched paperwork. The project is too far
along to stop, making the mess hall a future monument to the waste and
inefficiency plaguing the war effort, according to an independent panel
investigating contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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