Will Normie investigate the newest Pentagon scandal?

[katinmn]

Dear Senator Coleman;

As you are chair of the Special Committee on Investigations, I look forward to your investigation of the Pentagon and its contractors following the release of this scandalous US government audit.

Sunday, January 29, 2006 · Last updated 3:21 p.m. PT
By JIM KRANE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iraq_Squandered_Aid.html?source=mypi

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iraqi money gambled away in the Philippines. Thousands spent on a swimming pool that was never used. An elevator repaired so poorly that it crashed, killing people.

A U.S. government audit found American-led occupation authorities squandered tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used to rebuild Iraq through undocumented spending and outright fraud.

In some cases, auditors recommend criminal charges be filed against the perpetrators. In others, it asks the U.S. ambassador to Iraq to recoup the money.
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The failure of the rebuilding effort has been borne out most vividly by the rise of a virulent anti-American insurgency that has claimed most of the 2,237 U.S. military lives lost since the war began.

(Many specific examples given in the whole article)

Link to the report: http://www.sigir.mil/audit_reports.html

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1. Bravo! Bravo! and thanks! n/t