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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 06:31 PM
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Audit: Funds for Iraq rebuilding squandered
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10789266/

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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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 06:33 PM
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1. And meanwhile
Edited on Sun Jan-29-06 06:34 PM by Horse with no Name
Our soldiers died from lack of armour...
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 06:34 PM
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3. exactly-and I want to know what private contractors were involved
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joemurphy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 06:34 PM
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2. Gosh! This looks like incompetence! Or Greed!
What a surprise!
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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 06:45 PM
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4. tens of millions ? try hundreds of millions maybe
billions of unaccounted for taxpayer dollars and 3 months ago no other than Dan Senor was in Iraq indicating
how corrupt the Iraqi's are (lol) no paperwork,no receipts no accountability. He says, Iraq is not like the USA where we have tools for accountability ie.calculators,filing cabinets,files,OVERSIGHT and the whole 9 yards.. Dan Senor a pure POS like the POTUS...


sad sad commentary...
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