Senate Democrats want probe of U.S. hiring in Iraq

Paul Bremer was head of the CPA during most of the time of the controversy, when young, inexperienced Bush supporters hired off of resumes posted at the Heritage Foundation website were put in charge of a $13 billion budget.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats hoping to capture control of the U.S. Congress in this fall elections called on Tuesday for probes of the Bush administration's Iraq rebuilding effort, which they likened to the government's botched response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Senate Democrats urged congressional and Pentagon investigations into hiring and contracting practices in Iraq. The requests came after the Washington Post newspaper reported young novices with Republican political connections got high-level jobs rebuilding Iraq in 2003 and 2004.

"Iraq, in one of the most critical moments in its history when the United States was there was being run by neocons (neoconservatives) in diapers," said Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, a senior Democrat.

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