New Iraq Reconstruction Funds Devoted Solely to Prisons

In other news, the State Department quietly announced this week it has requested $100 million dollars for Iraqi reconstruction – all of it for prisons. The Bush administration initially promised $20 billion dollars to reconstruct Iraqi infrastructure. But much of the money has been diverted to security. State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey said the $100 million dollar prison project was the lone new reconstruction effort the US government will undertake over the next year.

-excerpt from today's Democracy Now broadcast.

AMERICA'S FINEST: MENTAL SETBACKS

The Washington Post reports that "More than one in three soldiers and Marines who have served in Iraq later sought help for mental health problems, according to a comprehensive snapshot by Army experts of the psyches of men and women returning from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places."

Meanwhile, a recent American troop Zogby poll reports that "Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11."