6.6 billion in the trash can

[Synthaholic]

After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born.

Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.

This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history."

Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - latimes.com

Do you realize that the shithead, Truthnevermatters beat you to this story?

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/171175-6-6-billion-in-the-trash-can.html

So what? You wingnuts started thread after thread about Obama's BC. And that was a bunch of bullshit!

This is a real story. About really incompetent assholes in the Bush administration and the military.

 

[Antiderivative]

. About really incompetent assholes in the Bush administration and the military.

Incompetency is paying over $2 million in blood money for Raymond David (i.e. a modern day lib hero) and then torturing Bradely Manning (i.e. a modern day liberal villain).

Come back when your administration can uphold decency and American values.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born.

Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.

This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history."

Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - latimes.com

Do you realize that the shithead, Truthnevermatters beat you to this story?

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/171175-6-6-billion-in-the-trash-can.html

Actually....it was the "lamestream media" (as Snooki Palin calls them) that had exposed this....back when everyone was still celebrating BUSHCO's "Mission Accomplished".​

February 12, 2006​

"Fresh, new, crisp, unspent, just-printed $100 bills. It was the Wild West," recalls Frank Willis, who was the No. 2 man at the Coalition Provisional Authority's Ministry of Transportation.

The money was a mixture of Iraqi oil revenues, war booty and U.S. government funds earmarked for the coalition authority. Whenever cash was needed, someone went down to the vault with a wheelbarrow or gunny sacks.

"Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that's $2 million there," Willis explains, looking at a photo of brick-shaped stacks of money wrapped in plastic. "This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles."

Willis says the bricks of money were also sometimes referred to as footballs, "… because we passed them around in little pickup games in our office," he says laughing.

Asked if he has any evidence that the accounting system was a little loose, Willis says, "I would describe it as nonexistent."

Billion$ Wasted In Iraq​

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHGCZC6EQs]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers: Part 1 of 2‬‏[/ame]
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbC_bXwEWg]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers - Part 2 of 2‬‏[/ame]

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[skookerasbil]

Hmmm............lets see...........

6 billion vs 800+ billion wasted stimulus............

This thread is like someoby spiking a football when their team is behind by 8 touchdowns!!!!

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Hmmm............lets see...........

6 billion vs 800+ billion wasted stimulus.....

Gee....makes ya' wonder why Republicans were so anxious to put their names ON those stimulus-checks!!!



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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w894xqReOdo]YouTube - ‪Rachel Maddow Exposes Republican Hypocrisy For What It Is......BS.flv‬‏[/ame]

$ $ $ $

Back to the subject-at-hand.....


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXjCtkymRQ]YouTube - ‪US Troops in Iraq talk about Halliburton & KBR‬‏[/ame]​

 

[skookerasbil]

After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born.

Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.

This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history."

Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - latimes.com

Do you realize that the shithead, Truthnevermatters beat you to this story?

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/171175-6-6-billion-in-the-trash-can.html

Actually....it was the "lamestream media" (as Snooki Palin calls them) that had exposed this....back when everyone was still celebrating BUSHCO's "Mission Accomplished".​

February 12, 2006​

"Fresh, new, crisp, unspent, just-printed $100 bills. It was the Wild West," recalls Frank Willis, who was the No. 2 man at the Coalition Provisional Authority's Ministry of Transportation.

The money was a mixture of Iraqi oil revenues, war booty and U.S. government funds earmarked for the coalition authority. Whenever cash was needed, someone went down to the vault with a wheelbarrow or gunny sacks.

"Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that's $2 million there," Willis explains, looking at a photo of brick-shaped stacks of money wrapped in plastic. "This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles."

Willis says the bricks of money were also sometimes referred to as footballs, "… because we passed them around in little pickup games in our office," he says laughing.

Asked if he has any evidence that the accounting system was a little loose, Willis says, "I would describe it as nonexistent."

Billion$ Wasted In Iraq​

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHGCZC6EQs]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers: Part 1 of 2‬‏[/ame]
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbC_bXwEWg]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers - Part 2 of 2‬‏[/ame]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zt9BZD7mlc]YouTube - ‪Iraq For Sale - Full Movie‬‏[/ame]​

Time to move on s0n........the only people who care are the 184 people who watch MSNBC.

 

[sparky]

well, ya got that right, nobody gives a rodents rear end anymore.....

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Do you realize that the shithead, Truthnevermatters beat you to this story?

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/171175-6-6-billion-in-the-trash-can.html

Actually....it was the "lamestream media" (as Snooki Palin calls them) that had exposed this....back when everyone was still celebrating BUSHCO's "Mission Accomplished".​

February 12, 2006​

"Fresh, new, crisp, unspent, just-printed $100 bills. It was the Wild West," recalls Frank Willis, who was the No. 2 man at the Coalition Provisional Authority's Ministry of Transportation.

The money was a mixture of Iraqi oil revenues, war booty and U.S. government funds earmarked for the coalition authority. Whenever cash was needed, someone went down to the vault with a wheelbarrow or gunny sacks.

"Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that's $2 million there," Willis explains, looking at a photo of brick-shaped stacks of money wrapped in plastic. "This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles."

Willis says the bricks of money were also sometimes referred to as footballs, "… because we passed them around in little pickup games in our office," he says laughing.

Asked if he has any evidence that the accounting system was a little loose, Willis says, "I would describe it as nonexistent."

Billion$ Wasted In Iraq​

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHGCZC6EQs]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers: Part 1 of 2‬‏[/ame]
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbC_bXwEWg]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers - Part 2 of 2‬‏[/ame]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zt9BZD7mlc]YouTube - ‪Iraq For Sale - Full Movie‬‏[/ame]​

Time to move on s0n........the only people who care are the 184 people who watch MSNBC.

....And, a "few" families....

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[P F Tinmore]

YouTube - ‪Cynthia McKinney Economic planks - Green Party Presidential candidate‬‏

Here is another presidential candidate y'all didn't vote for.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5uJHvj_xwk&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Dennis Kucinich "Pentagon Is Missing Trillions Of Dollars They Can Not Account For"‬‏[/ame]

 

[uscitizen]

You do realize that the lost 6.6 Billion is close to 1/4 of what the Bush administration told us the Iraq war would cost in total?

 

[uscitizen]

But the right is up in arms over 100 mill to pay for PBS/NPR....
6.6 billion would take care of PBS/NPR for 100 years or so.
But somehow the right just apologizes it away...

 

[CountofTuscany]

Wasn't it nice when the spambot Mr Shaman was missing for a few days?

 

[P F Tinmore]

The world's criminal class has been using the US for its ATM for decades.

There is a trillion missing from HUD also. Who has been getting that money? Somebody is getting that money.

 

[Sallow]

When I first heard this story back in the mid 2000's, I just couldn't believe it. What fuckin' moron could come up with a plan to fly billions of dollars in cash to Iraq and then distribute it in such a way that there was no way to account for who got it and/or how it was spent? And frankly, how could his superiors approved such a plan with no real oversight?

Then I remembered the conservative axiom that gov't doesn't work. And for some strange inexplicable reason, when conservatives take power they have some weird need to prove that axiom true.

Bush was a progressive liberal, not a conservative. Do you want to debate he was a conservative maybe? Go ahead, give us a list of "conservative" policies he passed... To prove Bush was a Progressive liberal I point to Obama's record on policy and the fact that Obama himself says he is a Progressive and yet his policies are Bush policies or expanded Bush policies.

The bullshit meter is off da charts!!!!!!

 

[Rat in the Hat]

Do you realize that the shithead, Truthnevermatters beat you to this story?

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/171175-6-6-billion-in-the-trash-can.html

Actually....it was the "lamestream media" (as Snooki Palin calls them) that had exposed this....back when everyone was still celebrating BUSHCO's "Mission Accomplished".​

February 12, 2006​

"Fresh, new, crisp, unspent, just-printed $100 bills. It was the Wild West," recalls Frank Willis, who was the No. 2 man at the Coalition Provisional Authority's Ministry of Transportation.

The money was a mixture of Iraqi oil revenues, war booty and U.S. government funds earmarked for the coalition authority. Whenever cash was needed, someone went down to the vault with a wheelbarrow or gunny sacks.

"Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that's $2 million there," Willis explains, looking at a photo of brick-shaped stacks of money wrapped in plastic. "This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles."

Willis says the bricks of money were also sometimes referred to as footballs, "… because we passed them around in little pickup games in our office," he says laughing.

Asked if he has any evidence that the accounting system was a little loose, Willis says, "I would describe it as nonexistent."

Billion$ Wasted In Iraq​

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHGCZC6EQs]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers: Part 1 of 2‬‏[/ame]
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbC_bXwEWg]YouTube - ‪Iraq War Profiteers - Part 2 of 2‬‏[/ame]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zt9BZD7mlc]YouTube - ‪Iraq For Sale - Full Movie‬‏[/ame]​

Time to move on s0n........the only people who care are the 184 people who watch MSNBC.

Please stop quoting Mr Nitwit. You're defeating my having him on ignore.