Iraqis have money but lack know-how in spending it - Yahoo! News

Iraqis have money but lack know-how in spending it - Yahoo! News: "BAGHDAD – Iraq's government has an unusual money problem as much of the world grapples with a credit crunch — it can't spend its oil riches fast enough.
The U.S. is trying to change that by training Iraqi bureaucrats struggling to emerge from a centralized system in which nearly all decisions — from where to build a water treatment plant to which workers would do the job — came from the top."

Here's another article of interest for Unit Two's paper and discussion.