The Coalition of the Clueless - Insights into the $8.8 billion dollars missing in Iraq!
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[02-06-07]
If you thought IRAQ got a ton of money, you’d be wrong. In fact, IRAQ got more than 360 tons of money. Cold cash. In one Hundred Dollar bills.
Man, you really know the Debacle formerly Known As the Iraq War transcends disbelief when an exaggeration becomes reality!
Today, Iraq’s bean counters The Coalition Provisional Authority were cross examined under oath by the Oversight & Gov’t Reform Committee, who are, after nearly 3 years later, looking in to the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayers money, sent to Iraq. And you thought you never gave to charity. All told, 8.8 billion dollars. Vanished.
Oversight Committee Henry Waxman crossed his “t’s” with his nutshell, of the money spent in Iraq:
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Just think of 180 Pick Up trucks filled, to the brim with Cash. Yes Cash.
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“…pick trucks unloading”
Gee, I can’t imagine that situation being abused.
In a little more than a year, 12 billion dollars was removed from the vault of the Federal Reserve and flown into Iraq. In Dec. 2003, the CPA’s sole withdrawal of 1.5 billion dollars was the single largest payout of US Currency in US history; until June, when they asked for 2.4 million dollars. A new World Record. Again All Cash
But it did say $73 million dollars was spent on the Baghdad Police College deemed uninhabitable because of shoddy work, and another $44 million dollars on an Olympic size swimming pool for an Iraqi police Training Camp that has stood empty for months.
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“…who in their right mind would do this?”
Here’s a hint: He just asked for $163 billion dollars more today.
The cost of war has more than doubled original expectations to the tune of 2.2 trillion dollars. For 2.2 trillion dollars we could have funded the entire World’s commitment to Foreign Aid to poor countries for the next 20 years;
[audio] Bush Social Security…”
With less than a quarter of the amount spent on the Iraq War, we could have fixed Social Security for the next 75 years.
But it’s not like he could have paid off the national debt. It wouldn’t have even paid the surcharge…
