Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. stated "It's beyond pitiful, it's beyond embarrassing, it's now in the zone of dangerous." when referring to figurs showing only about 6% of reconstruction money approved by Congress has been spent. Both Republicans and Democrats denounced the Bush administration's slow progress in the rebuilding of Iraq. The Foreign Relations Committee members reacted harshly at a hearing wherein the State Department explained its request to divert almost three-and-a-half billion in reconstruction funds to security and economic development.

It appears as though some money is changing hands in Iraq, and none of it is going to the reconstruction efforts. How 'bout a full accounting from the Bush Regime's about its hidden agenda?