The aid offensive
Launching one of the largest postwar reconstruction efforts ever attempted will strain the already taxed Agency for International Development.
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHIraqis in the southern town of Safwa were desperate for humanitarian supplies in the second week of the war.
With the Bush administration set to spend $2.4 billion this year on postwar humanitarian and reconstruction assistance for Iraq, the U.S. Agency for International Development - which appropriators have left to wither over the last decade - is back in the limelight and facing perhaps the biggest challenge in its history.
Shortly after the war started, the $7 billion agency, which will administer most of the reconstruction funding, let eight contracts for US. companies to handle everything from rebuilding schools and hospitals to restoring electricity and sanitizing Iraq's water supply. The success of that work will say a lot about US intentions in the region. Advocates are even calling it a new Marshall Plan. For AID, it's a chance to prove the agency can shine again.
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