to invade and destroy iraq, we promised to rebuild it. did we? what do YOU think?
and who will be held accountable for this? for years and years and years, king george and his bunch o' good ol' whiteboyz literally THREW OUR money into the abyss that is iraq (we made it that way). while i would have NO problems if the money was spent on the care and protection of our service members, the majority was NOT. it is in someone's pocket. that someone is NOT you or i
Missing Iraq billions could be 'greatest fraud in US history'
Stephen C. Webster
The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, the Army's criminal Investigation Command and the Justice Department are investigating US soldiers and officials in the alleged misuse of a portion of the $125 billion initially sent to Iraq for reconstruction shortly after the fall of Saddam.
Monday, The Independent's Iraq correspondent Patrick Cockburn reported the inspectors believe misuse may account for over $50 billion, exceeding the scope of Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme and making it potentially the "greatest fraud in US history."
"In one case, auditors working for SIGIR discovered that $57.8m was sent in 'pallet upon pallet of hundred-dollar bills' to the US comptroller for south-central Iraq, Robert J Stein Jr, who had himself photographed standing with the mound of money," wrote Cockburn. "He is among the few US officials who were in Iraq to be convicted of fraud and money-laundering.
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