I had the pleasure of working with local Iraqis who risked their lives to help rebuild the crippled Iraqi infrastructure.
The State Department explained that the additional money for Iraq would be used to "sustain key Iraqi infrastructure."
Rifai is credited for playing a major role in the development of the Iraqi infrastructure during this seven-year period.
Allied bombing raids destroyed Iraqi civilian infrastructure.
Nowhere is this seen more explicitly than in the subsequent American failure to follow through on our promise to reconstruct the Iraqi infrastructure we helped to smash.
They are working to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure, with the cooperation of Iraqi engineers, including construction of roads, airfields, and land moving.
New Zealand also sent a unit of army engineers to help rebuild Iraqi infrastructure for one year during the Iraq War.
The United States had intended to quickly rebuild Iraqi infrastructure for production back to pre-war levels, but widespread sabotage slowed down the pace of reconstruction.
Without sufficient troops to guard the Iraqi military infrastructure, large amounts of munitions were looted.
In contrast to their strategy in the first gulf war, American war planners had been careful not to attack Iraqi infrastructure.