Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
There’s a good article at Antiwar.com about a pile of money that seems to have developed magical powers. Here are the first few paragraphs:
The report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says that the now defunct U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) did not exercise adequate managerial control over funds paid to Iraqi government ministries, which employ hundreds of experts from the United States.
This resulted in potentially widespread corruption, including paying salaries to “ghost” employees, and led to the eventual disappearance of $8.8 billion between early 2003 and mid-2004.
“Potentially widespread” corruption? Good phrase! That’s right up there with the “possibly innocent” civilians whose home was bombed the other day. Pardon our “catastrophic success”!
What am I bitching about? It’s only money, is it not? And we have money to burn, don’t we? No? Ok then, why are we so busy burning it?
I do not want to know how many humvees could have been properly armored for 8.8 billion dollars. I do not want to know how many American lives could have been spared. Really. I don’t even want to know how many extra votes could have been gained by making sure those 8.8 billion dollars disappeared into the right pockets! Oh that’s right! They did disappear into the right pockets! How ironic!!
And how many elections can you buy for 8.8 billion dollars? Don’t tell me. I don’t want to know!
You can read the entire article but please don’t answer any of my questions!!
That’s about 1/2 Billion dollars a month. Can’t they hire some accountants? It’s OUR fucking money.
They had accountants. The same guys that handled the money at Enron. The same ones that will be handling your money in those neat personal retirement accounts if Bush can do away with social security. You can’t chalk it all up to election fraud. At least 40 million American morons probably did vote for these idiots. How stupid is that?
Hi Winter,
I noticed these audit results on the 3oth and posted this in another thread. It justs adds a little bit more to your article.
Heyyy….what happened? It made the direct link but then when I previewed it it turned all the writing after it white instead of yellow. Now what am I doing wrong?
re #3: two things wrong, Cheryl. [1] You didn’t quote the URL (you need to say href="http://www.stuff"😉 and [2] You typed “a/” rather than “/a” at the end of the link text, so it didn’t recognize the end of the link text.
Ohhhhhh…you’re the best, Winter.
By the way, I can’t find anywhere to post US election fraud items and I have a new one that I’m dying to share so I’m gonna post it here, k? Don’t delete me cause I’m off topic! 😀
Statisticians refute explanation for exit poll discrepancies
Just one note on that $8.8 billion:
From what I have read, the money was not ours but was impounded Iraqi funds, set aside for restoration and social projects. Thus, its "disappearance" is even more criminal and fraudulent.
8.8 billion???
A bucking drop in the fucket!!!
Anyone remember that( earlier in this ‘war’ )
4 Billion dollars of Iraqi funds disappeared?
Gone, no questions asked, no one looking.
Might that explain the $5000 suits and puffy walk?