Reply #46: Bush: "Will will not retreat until we have drained this treasury dry...

[brindis_desala]

This invasion/occupation has produced a level of war-profiteering unmatched in modern history run by a government of racketeering gangsters. If BushCo can't do simple accounting how on earth can it rebuild a nation? This "War on Terra" is a giant hornswoggle!

New Halliburton Whistleblowers Say Millions Wasted in Iraq
by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch
June 16th, 2004
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"In testimony submitted to members of Congress, one truck driver explained in detail how taxpayers were billed for empty trucks driven up and down Iraq and how $85,000 vehicles were abandoned for lack of spare tires. A labor foreman said dozens of workers were told to "look busy" while doing virtually no work for salaries of $80,000 a year. An auditor related how the company was spending an average of $100 for every single bag of laundry and $10,000 a month for company employees to stay in five-star hotels.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11373

Follow the Money
By Michael Hirsh
Newsweek
Monday 04 April 2005 Issue

"Watchdogs are warning that corruption in Iraq is out of control. But will the United States join efforts to clamp down on it?
Yet when the two whistle-blowers sued Custer Battles on behalf of the U.S. government-under a U.S. law intended to punish war profiteering and fraud-the Bush administration declined to take part.
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"The government has not lifted a finger to get back the $50 million Custer Battles defrauded it of," says Alan Grayson, a lawyer for the two whistle-blowers, Pete Baldwin and Robert Isakson.
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9946

Associated Press
Audit: $9 Billion Unaccounted for in Iraq
01.30.2005,

"The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to government ministries, which lacked financial controls, security, communications and adequate staff, an inspector general has found.

http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/feeds/ap/2005/01/30/ap1791607.html