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Thread #86626   Message #1657982
Posted By: Ebbie
30-Jan-06 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: What's REALLY Going on in Iraq?
Subject: RE: BS: What's REALLY Going on in Iraq?
I gotta ask if anyone even read my link. It starts out by saying:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iraqi money gambled away in the Philippines. Thousands spent on a swimming pool that was never used. An elevator repaired so poorly that it crashed, killing people.

"A U.S. government audit found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used to rebuild    Iraq through undocumented spending and outright fraud.

"In some cases, auditors recommend criminal charges be filed against the perpetrators. In others, it asks the U.S. ambassador to Iraq to recoup the money.

"Dryly written audit reports describe the Coalition Provisional Authority's offices in the south-central city of Hillah being awash in bricks of $100 bills taken from a central vault without documentation.

It describes one agent who kept almost $700,000 in cash in an unlocked footlocker and mentions a U.S. soldier who gambled away as much as $60,000 in reconstruction funds in the Philippines."

And much more. There appears to be no accountability.