Comments on: Audit: Iraq Contracts Skirted Fraud Rules

Probe Finds Pentagon Paid Nearly $8 Billion With Little Or No Oversight, Or Even Proof Of Work

[veteran72]

Rumsfeld Sept 10, 2001: The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 TRILLION

CBS NEWS: The War on Waste

On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary''s closer to home. It''s the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.
He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.
"In fact, it could be said it''s a matter of life and death," he said.

Rumsfeld promised change but the next day %u2013 Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.

Then, President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."

More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion %u2014 that''s $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America.

Darth:...."So"???

[firststate]

demslie

It''s not the Dem''s audit.
It''s not a CBS audit.
It''s an audit by the Inspector General. He happens to be a Republican appointee. The pentagon''s Inspector General says they paid nearly $8 billion with little or no oversight.

Some expenditures didn''t even have invoices to support the payments. Little or no oversight. Oversight is a dirty word to the DickNBush RICO enterprise. They prefer overlooking to oversight. Maybe some of the expenditures were legitimate, but there''s no way to say so.

Usually when huge sums of money are spent without supporting documents, some of it is going into pockets it doesn''t belong in. Company X must have had the money coming or they wouldn''t have taken it, yeah right. "Trust us" is not good enough, especially not with this administration and their cronies.

[singingrick]

dumslie


Everything is fine just turn back to Fox or Rush like a good little sheep. You''ll be alright.

Baaaaaaaaaa.......


lol!

[taotxzen]

Whose judgment on Iraq has been %u2018consistently wrong%u2019?
By: Steve Benen @ 5:30 AM - PDT

Karl Rove%u2019s main contribution to the strategic lexicon is the notion that candidates should identify their big weakness, and their rival%u2019s big strength, and then go barreling head-first in that direction. It%u2019s counter-intuitive, I know.

And yet, some candidates seem to like it. This week, for example, John McCain argued that he%u2019s shown better judgment on Iraq than Barack Obama, which, of course, doesn%u2019t make any sense.

%u201CSenator Obama has consistently offered his judgment on Iraq, and he has been consistently wrong. He said that General Petraeus%u2019 new strategy would not reduce sectarian violence, but would worsen it. He was wrong. He said the dynamics in Iraq would not change as a result of the %u2019surge.%u2019 He was wrong. One year ago, he voted to cut off all funds for our forces fighting extremists in Iraq. He was wrong%u2026

(cont)

[taotxzen]

(cont)

%u201CWe continue to face challenges in Iraq, and we have a lot of work ahead. Yet the American people must ask whether we are more or less likely to succeed there if Senator Obama has his way.%u201D

How very odd. McCain has gotten every aspect of the war wrong for six years, so his campaign pitch is that Obama %u2014 who%u2019s been right from the start %u2014 has gotten every aspect of the war wrong. It%u2019s like watching the campaign through a special prism that refracts reality.

Obama responded in a statement, %u201CWhile I always appreciate hearing the news from John McCain, he should explain to the American people why almost every single promise and prediction that he has made about Iraq has turned to be catastrophically wrong, including his support for a surge that was supposed to achieve political reconciliation.%u201D

The facts are clearly on Obama%u2019s side here.

[slim1h2o]

I wonder why CBS is not allowing comments on the following story?

"Outrage as Disease Facility is to be Moved
Farmers say Animal Disease Center Should Stay Away from Heartland"

[it_oldtimer]

I''ll bet *** Cheney knows exactly where at least 90% of that "lost" money is: safely tucked into his bank accounts and those of his cronies and supporters.

Halliburton, BRK, Blackwater, Triple Canopy and Dyna-corp have all done very, very well by this otherwise pointless war. It''s the easiest money they''ve ever made.

[veteran72]

Do you see a single word in the defense of the other side?
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Posted by demslie at 05:19 PM : May 23, 2008
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Perhaps you, being the Neocon Nazi Cheerleader and Apologist that you are, have some evidence that all of these Government Audits were rigged, or in some other way unfair???...........*crickets*......
LMMFAO......What a laugh you pathetic morons are.....

[lfitts1]

No, its just that people who watch FOX are just stupid, right Democrats?

Posted by demslie

You are right--the Nazi party station is the mouth piece for the GOP and people who watch FOX news ARE dumb!!!

[veteran72]

Just keep reelecting incumbents. Sheep.


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Posted by trillion1 at 04:53 PM : May 23, 2008
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Exactly. They''ve ALL got to go.....except for Ron Paul....