AFP:
The Pentagon cannot account for nearly 15 billion dollars in payments for goods and services in Iraq, according to an internal audit which members of Congress blasted Friday as a "shocking" accountability failure.
Of 8.2 billion dollars in US taxpayer-funded defense contracts reviewed by the defense department's inspector general, the Pentagon could not properly account for more than 7.7 billion dollars.
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This one good reason to STOP PAYING OUR TAXES. Will the next President do something about this fraud???
Last week President Bush appointed two members to the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Grant S. Green is an ex-Undersecretary of State while Dov. S. Zakheim is the ex-Chief Financial Officer of the Pentagon. Both served from 2001 through 2004, over half the time of the study in question. Both the State and Defense Departments are big spenders in Iraq.
Here's my question. If they couldn't ensure proper spending when it fit into their job description, how can they do so now as a member of the Commission? It looks another Bush fox appointment for the federal chicken ranch, especially as both men now work as private consultants for their defense industry clients.
Not long ago George W. tapped Gen. Peter Pace and Frances Townsend for his Intelligence Advisery Board. If there's one thing President Bush likes, it's yes men and women. It seems he has two more.
Actually, it's easily explained: 15 new neocon billionaires laughing all the way to the bank while the idiots who voted for Bush/Cheney don't know how to pay the mortgage..
I couldn't put it better myself!
But will someone PLEASE check Dick Cheney's pockets (that'd be the first place I'd look!)
This is the problem with over-funding the MIlitary-Industrial Complex. No one provides proper accounting for their part of the pie. Yet, these same schmucks will hollar like the dickens about welfare moms and welfare fraud whose scale probably pales in comparison to their waste and fraud. Our pre-occupation with providing for the common defense is way out of proportion!
We need a REVOLUTION, the kind that puts the te?ds that be, either in prison or in the gr??nd. What if somebody gave a REVOLUTION and nearly everybody came, what a thought. We are reaching a critical mass in our country and the status quo will be the death of us all if we don't do something fast. These people have been robbing us on a grand scale and our representatives have been standing there and watching it happen. They need to pull their heads out of their as??s and get the ball rolling because when this ship sinks we all go down together, everyone needs to think about that and get good and mad
like I am. I truly resent a bunch elected criminals ( the bush gang from DC BG/DC) destroying the America that I served in the Marine Corps to protect. I have never felt so bad about the future of this
country in my life. Semper Fi
You would think that a patriot like Gen Patrious would stop that sort of thing and arrest the folks responsible
Don't hold your breath, he's probably already cashed the advance cheque from the military-industrial complex corp he will work for once he retires (very, very soon...)
Yes, selling your soul is the modus operandi of Bushco. Temporary instant grantification, but it will have it's punishments. I wouldn't recommend it.
Iraq's oil production, where are the profits going to? Who are the procurators? Are these profits being mishandled?
OMG, 5 weeks worth of Iraq, $15bn is MISSING? MISSING??? OMG, OMG, OMFG, it must've gone on to join the $2.3 TRILLION DoD lost -- which they announced just before that fateful day of 9/11 stole all the headlines forevermore. Look over here, REALLY BIG and REALLY SHINY object.
Iraq is the largest shell game ever concocted or conceived. 15 billion is pocket money in the scheme of schemes. What about the billions siphoned off into the privatized military sector, or the billions wasted on egregiously substandard constructions projects, or the billions fleeced for $100 bags of laundry and no-bid cost plus contracts? Every aspect of the Iraq war has been carefully engineered to steal as much money from the American tax payer and give it to the wealthy, which is why you don't hear the upper crust making so much as a peep of noise over Iraq. Taxes have never been lower in a time of war, and they are the end game recipients of the war's unparalleled handouts.
SOT
The Beast (black ops) is a very hungry Beast and devors much. Its a black hole that this nation is spiraling into.
only 15B are you kidding? This is not a war it is not an occupation, it is a money laundering scheme! Cayman Island bank accounts to avoid paying taxes, shoddy, incomplete or fraudulent work, cronies working for the government, then contractors then back in the government again.
If you think the 15B is bad watch this http://www
Yep, nothing more than the biggest heist in history. They make fun of dictators doing the same thing, but Bush/Cheney are no different, maybe worse. They've stolen or misappropriated at least hundereds of billions in just 5-6 years.
The Bush Crime Family has been pillaging the UA Treasury. This is the tip of the iceberg.
We impeach a president for commiting adultry on his wife by way of BJ("oh he lied") but we give the fool in office a free ride when it comes to our hard earned money thats mispent, stolen or lost? Lies told to our face and laws on the books that are broken claiming executive priv. Where is the outrage? Double-standards when it comes to Democrats and Republicans.
Most likely, Bush got a lot of blackmail evidence during the warrantless wiretapping at the start of his reign. THAT'S probably why "impeachment is off the table."
I've wondered about that for a while, imagine how much dirt Rove has on everybody
Bush NeoCon, spend and waste, spend and waste.
My God, how can we justify giving this administration one penny more. No more Mcbush..Bu
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First Posted: 05-24-08 07:49 AM | Updated: 06- 1-08 05:12 AM