Flashback: 'Iraq was awash in cash. We played football with bricks of $100 bills'

[deminks]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar/20/usa.iraq

At the beginning of the Iraq war, the UN entrusted $23bn of Iraqi money to the US-led coalition to redevelop the country. With the infrastructure of the country still in ruins, where has all that money gone? Callum Macrae and Ali Fadhil on one of the greatest financial scandals of all time

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I hear this is the third time now we are investigating missing billions in Iraq.

[JDPriestly]

1. The Bush administration was irresponsible in handling taxpayer money.

Why should Americans trust another Republican administration?

You always get the same completely untrustworthy bunch, even worse than the Democrats.

Forget the rhetoric. Just look at what happened during the Bush administration. What they couldn't steal, they lost by accident. It was the worst-run administration ever. And they had Cheney in charge with all his experience in prior Republican administrations.

Obama is bad, but thus far not nearly as bad as the Republican crew.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Send the bill to little bush .............. it was his war