Congress seeks missing billions in Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Financial Times

Members of Congress dem­anded on Tuesday that the Bush administration explain how billions of dollars of US taxpayers’ money had gone missing in Iraq in what they called a disastrous effort to rebuild the country.

Responding to the latest report by Stuart Bowen, the special inspector-general for Iraq reconstruction, members of the House foreign relations committee also directed much of their criticism at the Iraqi coalition government, venting their frustration with corruption.

“It is simply outrageous that we are mired in the same mud of incompetence that we got stuck in last year and the year before that. But knowing the administration’s abysmal track record on Iraq reconstruction planning, this is no surprise,” Tom Lantos, the committee’s Democratic chairman, said.

Iraq was losing perhaps $5bn (€3.7bn, £2.5bn) a year through corruption, he said.



Read more: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/48a03a58-0885-11dc-b11e-000b5df10621.html

[rsmith6621]

1. after yesterday!!!!!!

...I wont believe it till I see it...all smoke and mirrors...they'll cave here to.

[Monkeyman]

2. I agree

The only thing this did was keep it Bush's dam War

[Kolesar]

7. Sidetrack...eom

[Tesla]

3. When your dealing with 100 bill at a time

5 bill don't seem all that bad.

Wonder who will get the 5 bill from the latest war-funding bill.
You know it won't be for Katrina, or Oklahoma.
Maybe HOME security, like an American Army that stays in America.
To protect us!
We don't even have equiptment to clean up a town after a natural disaster!!

[Vanje]

4. yeh. Good luck wi that

[soothsayer]

5. how about the missing $2.3 TRILLION the Pentagon can't find?

you know, the thing rummy announced on 9-10-01, just before larger events eclipsed the news. When that (since gone) orthodox rabbi was in charge of the pentagon coffers. Billions are NOTHING. Trillions?---we need those back.

[wordpix]

6. look in BushCo's & BigOil's pockets---likely to be there

[EnviroBat]

8. So here's another 100 bil for you to lose.

Suddenly NOW they're asking for the financial accountability? How fucking ironic that they are agreeing to hand over yet more of our nations treasury to this fucker!

[frylock]

9. members of congress dem­anded..

:rofl:

furthermore, :rofl:

[Acadia Blue]

10. Republicans thought stealing was just fine since most of them do it

all the time. I hope the Democratic party finds out where all the money went and the crimimnals who stole it go to jail.

[Solly Mack]

11. LMAO

[anotherdrew]

12. then they might start looking right here at home,,, n/t