Inspector general: Amount wasted on Iraq reconstruction ‘can never be known’

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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously said about the war in Iraq, “There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know.”

Here’s something that we know: The U.S. government spent a fortune trying to rebuild Iraq.

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