Your Tax Dollars at Work

From an Agence France-Presse story on the reconstruction of Iraq:

By mid-2008, according to the history, 117 billion dollars had been spent on the reconstruction of Iraq, including about 50 billion in US taxpayer money, the paper noted.

At one point, an official at the US Agency for International Development was given four hours [emphasis mine] to determine how many miles of Iraqi roads would be needed to be repaired and reopened, according to the newspaper report.