let s bring in nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent richard engel who is doing extraordinary work in bagdad. it s got to be surreal after being there during the darkest times of the iraq war from 2003 to 2011. now you re back again. it looks like the situation is worse than it was even in the low points of 2006. reporter: it is a terrible country to live in right now. i don t say that lightly. it is absolutely corrupt. the infrastructure doesn t work. as we were walking over here from our bureau a couple nights ago, it s only couple hundred yards. the first checkpoint we came to, we were asked for a bribe. every time we go out to film we re asked for paperwork and a bribe. the infrastructure doesn t work. it s entirely sectarian. yesterday we were at a recruiting center where new people are signing up to join the army after being has
sanity in the capital. you read the headlines today. no question. and the mayor always said when the recession first hit, the mayor said because the economy is in trouble doesn t mean we stop investing in growth. the plan we are laying out is get an additional $200 billion a year for ten years. remember saying infrastructure doesn t work because short term stimulus doesn t work. every major country that s done infrastructure, ten year program, $200 billion a year, we can use that to create 5 million well paying jobs each and every year. it s insane. go around new york. talk about all the people coming to the city. you drive around outside of manhattan. two lane roads where they should be eight. drive-through connecticut, two