Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Bush Admin RhetIraq: James F. Jeffrey
Who: James F. Jeffrey, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and Coordinator for Iraq
Source: US Department of State
Quotes: From on-the-record briefing given February 28, 2006.
AMBASSADOR JEFFREY: ... When we use "reconstruction," we use it in the broad sense of capacity-building, having a USAID democracy advisor with the Iraqi and UN Electoral Commission and that kind of thing. In the narrower sense, reconstruction in people's minds is building plants, is putting electricity on and that kind of thing. What we said was we weren't going to be doing much more of that. And in fact, in these two budgets, the only new construction is related to prisons, you know, which we see as a rule of law, capacity-building. So we have shifted away from that. There is no significant new money apart from that in our accounts for reconstruction in the narrow sense of building up the infrastructure.
Source: US Department of State
Quotes: From on-the-record briefing given February 28, 2006.
AMBASSADOR JEFFREY: ... When we use "reconstruction," we use it in the broad sense of capacity-building, having a USAID democracy advisor with the Iraqi and UN Electoral Commission and that kind of thing. In the narrower sense, reconstruction in people's minds is building plants, is putting electricity on and that kind of thing. What we said was we weren't going to be doing much more of that. And in fact, in these two budgets, the only new construction is related to prisons, you know, which we see as a rule of law, capacity-building. So we have shifted away from that. There is no significant new money apart from that in our accounts for reconstruction in the narrow sense of building up the infrastructure.
