i wonder if the iraqis like living under the amerikan empire dictator george w bush better then the arab dictator saddam? both dictators killed and tortured 1,000's of iraqi citizens. but at least under saddam they had some running water and electricity. Original Article Insurgents stall reconstruction More than half of sanitation and water projects cut Associated Press Feb. 2, 2006 12:00 AM DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Guerrilla attacks in Iraq have forced the cancellation of more than 60 percent of water and sanitation projects, in part because American intelligence failed to predict the brutal insurgency, a U.S. government audit said. American goals to fix Iraq's infrastructure will never be reached, mainly because insurgents have chased away contractors and forced the diversion of repair funds into security, according to an audit of the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Program released last week. It is the latest in a series of auditing reports being issued by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The rise of Iraq's insurgency was never envisioned by U.S. officials, who originally budgeted about 9 percent of reconstruction aid for project security, the audit said. As kidnappings, killings and sabotage drove local laborers and foreign technicians from the reconstruction program, U.S. administrators were forced to step up protection for workers. New measures like armored vehicles, private security teams and blast walls absorbed as much as 22 percent of project costs, according to the audit. "The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out," said Wayne White, who headed the State Department's Iraq intelligence team until last year. "Lots of them had to leave," he said. "They were terrified." U.S. officials coped with the gathering insurgency by diverting $5.6 billion of the $18.4 billion U.S. aid package into Iraq's security and public safety sectors. Meanwhile, officials slashed projects that were aimed at restoring the country's water and electricity infrastructure, according to the report. Funds earmarked for Iraq's military and law enforcement jumped 55 percent and paid for training and weapons for Iraqi police and troops, prison construction and additional border guards.