Report: Most of $1.2 billion to train Iraqi police unaccounted for

[spanone]

that's one and a half billion dolllars - where the fuck is it?

(CNN) -- The U.S. State Department is unable to account for most of $1.2 billion in funding that it gave to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police, a government report said Tuesday.

"The bottom line is that State can't account for where it went," said Glenn D. Furbish, who was involved in putting together the 20-page report for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR).

The Department of State's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) "did not have the information needed to identify what DynCorp provided under the contract or how funds were spent," the report said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/22/dyncorp.spending/index.html

[robinlynne]

1. Give us back the money right now. USe it for heating during this winter for poor people,

and homes for anyone living on the street. 1.2 billion should take care of heating and housing for a year.
and yes, we know where it went.

[Kagemusha]

2. News flash: Iraq is a very corrupt, tribal-run society.

The answer to your question: the money is everywhere now. A thousand points of light, to borrow a phrase.

[Richard Steele]

7. Bigger, more expensively-dressed flash: so is the USA.

We just have a much larger percentage of citizens in DENIAL
of that barefaced truth.

[rusty quoin]

3. I try not to imagine what damage they have done. Where is all the money?

It is too disturbing to face the destruction to our government that they may have already accomplished. Have they done it, or are they now doing the final solution by fulfilling the wishes of Norquist?

[shraby]

4. It's probably in the same pockets that got the

9 billion that is missing from earlier in the war.

[chill_wind]

5. My same reaction--- and all of it a freaking OUTRAGE.

Thanks to all the criminals in Washington who thieving it out of our pockets and our children's pockets.

[Stephanie]

6. So $1.2B ---> a 20 page report?

You'd do a bigger report on the Breast Cancer Awareness Bake Sale at work. WTF? Have we got NO DEMOCRATS who will HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE?

[TheMadMonk]

8. Bwahahahahahja. You expect them to pass up a chance...

...to get their own snouts in the trough.

The problem with the USA is that, to all intents and purposes, the entire country (those who "matter" anyways) is corrupt, or willing to be corrupted for the right price.

[WinkyDink]

9. Why do they need a BILLION?! Does this even REGISTER with Middle America??

The astounding Grand Theft being committed by Bush and Cheney is simply beyond comprehension.

And then we are supposed to believe there is "no money" for shoring up S.S. or for re-vamping our health-care "system" (AKA, money talks).

[JTFrog]

10. In 2009

when Dems take office we should create all new currency and make people trade in their old for the new. Maybe then would we have some chance of finding out where it went. Provided it hasn't all been converted to Euro already. :shrug: