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WANTED: PLAN TO STABILIZE IRAQ CITIES TO DEFEAT INSURGENCY. $1 BILLION AVAILABLE. INVITATION OPEN TO ANY TYPE OF ENTITY...


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I saw this at Huffington Post and thought it was a joke.

It's not.

The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications for an Assistance Agreement from qualified sources to design and implement a social and economic stabilization program impacting ten Strategic Cities, identified by the United States Government as critical to the defeat of the Insurgency in Iraq. The number of Strategic Cities may expand or contract over time. USAID plans to provide approximately $1,020,000,000 over two years to meet the objectives of the Program. An additional option year may be considered amounting to $300 million at the discretion of USAID. Funds are not yet available for this program.

Isn't this an admission that the Administration, and the Pentagon, and the State Department, and all the security and intelligence apparatus of the Federal Government, have failed? And now they are desperate for a way out?

ADDENDUM: Yes, apparently, it does.