will Joe Biter fold to Iran and China

no worries said:
Big deal. $400 million was in cash.
So, Bush sent Iraq $12 billion in cash.
Didn't hear a peep from teabaggers.
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I think that the more important thing is that the money that was sent to Iran was their money, and the money that was sent to Iraq was our money.
 
RB 60 said:
Bush sent Iraq $12 billion in cash? Really?
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February 8 2007

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"
 
no worries said:
That's what I'm reading.
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I am wrong, but the truth rather sucks:

Bremer's financial adviser, retired Admiral David Oliver, is even more direct. The memorandum quotes an interview with the BBC World Service. Asked what had happened to the $8.8bn he replied: "I have no idea. I can't tell you whether or not the money went to the right things or didn't - nor do I actually think it's important."

Q: "But the fact is billions of dollars have disappeared without trace."

Oliver: "Of their money. Billions of dollars of their money, yeah I understand. I'm saying what difference does it make?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am wrong, but the truth rather sucks:



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
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The final review of how this money was spent is damning. The findings show that the United States was unable to adequately track where and how money was spent because of gaps in reporting. This led to numerous instances of missing money.

For instance, SIGIR simply couldn’t find $3.2 billion meant for development projects. The military was only able to track ”$7.1 billion of the $19.6 billion obligated by DoD,” SIGIR found.

Overall, SIGIR found that “about 10 percent of the $60.6 billion spent on U.S. funded Iraq reconstruction” cannot be accounted for. It estimated that at least an additional 15 percent of that - $8 billion - was wasted.

www.cnbc.com/2014/06/19/how-the-us-lost-billions...
 
no worries said:
The final review of how this money was spent is damning. The findings show that the United States was unable to adequately track where and how money was spent because of gaps in reporting. This led to numerous instances of missing money.

For instance, SIGIR simply couldn’t find $3.2 billion meant for development projects. The military was only able to track ”$7.1 billion of the $19.6 billion obligated by DoD,” SIGIR found.

Overall, SIGIR found that “about 10 percent of the $60.6 billion spent on U.S. funded Iraq reconstruction” cannot be accounted for. It estimated that at least an additional 15 percent of that - $8 billion - was wasted.

www.cnbc.com/2014/06/19/how-the-us-lost-billions...
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It was treasonous....our elite class has acted treasonously....this is but one instance on the highlight reel.

Which is why I am a member of the Rebellion against the Elite Class, against the Failed Intelligentsia.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
It was treasonous....our elite class has acted treasonously....this is but one instance on the highlight reel.

Which is why I am a member of the Rebellion against the Elite Class, against the Failed Intelligentsia.
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as if anyone cares. good god. get a grip on reality.
 
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