This lack of progress is truly remarkable, given that Iraq’s annual budgets for the last five years have totaled nearly $500 billion. Incompetence and corruption are rampant: Iraq routinely scores among the bottom ten countries in Transparency International’s list of the most corrupt countries in the world.
鉴于伊拉克近五年的年度预算总额将近5，000亿美元，这样的进展状况的确令人感到不可思议。无能和腐败泛滥成灾：伊拉克经常在透明国际世界最腐败国家名单中排名后10位。