Feingold blasts "sloppy management" of reconstruction effort

[UrbScotty]

http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/05/05/2005504708.html

U.S. Senator Russ Feingold today criticized the "disorganized, sloppy management" of the reconstruction effort in Iraq after reviewing the three audit reports released today by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). In all three cases, the SIGIR found that "there was no assurance that fraud, waste, and abuse did not occur" in the administration of contracts and case assets. The SIGIR found indications of potential criminal activity in the case of the South-Central Iraq audit, where managers could not account for what happened to $96.6 million of $119.9 million that was disbursed in South-Central Iraq.

"These reports paint a picture of disorganized, sloppy management of both US taxpayer dollars and funds that belong to the Iraqi people themselves," Feingold said. "Billions of dollars, the success of the stabilization mission, and U.S. credibility are at stake, and these reports inspire very little confidence in the competence and transparency of U.S. efforts to date. These reports show that too often, contracts have been signed and money pushed out the door with little to no follow-up effort to determine just what has been achieved on the ground. The U.S. risks fostering a culture of corruption in Iraq. American taxpayers have shouldered a tremendous financial burden to support the Administration's policies in Iraq. They deserve better than this."

[rodeodance]

1. i am proud to say he is my Senator--Go Russ!!!

[gizmo1979]

2. Me too!

GO Russ go!

[UrbScotty]

6. But who can beat Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm????????

:D

[LdyGuique]

3. He was my Senator when I lived in Janesville

But, he's now at the top of my list of potential presidential candidates in 2008

[EC]

4. Now, hold them accountable and don't approve

any more funding until they account for all missing $$$$


Another Wisconsin voter here, proud of him.....

[Jacobin]

5. Yes. If only the deck chairs on the Titanic had been arranged 'just so'

the ship woulnd't have sunk and all souls on board would have been saved.

What a rollicking crock of moose shit.

There is no good way to invade a country to colonize it, steal its oil and slaughter its people. This was a goddamned clusterfuck of an idiotic idea from day one, and fucking accounting irregularities are the LEAST of our goddamned worries.
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I fucking HATE threads like this.

[Doctor_J]

7. Sloppy management?

Debacle? Catastrophe? Quagmire? Disaster? Russ needs to stop using Rove-approved language to critique this adventure, and use more DU words.

[Jacobin]

8. Yes. "Accounting Irregularities" are the major problem in IraqNam

Other than that, things are going swimmingly