Comments on: Where'd $1.2B For Iraqi Police Program Go?

Auditor: U.S. Can't Tell How Private Contractor Spent Funds For Police Training

[nothappyatall]

"As a result, INL does not know specifically what it received for most of the $1.2 billion in expenditures under its DynCorp contract for the Iraqi Police Training Program,"

I think it''s obvious, we received NOTHING, the Iraq "police" are as incompetent corrupt and helpless as they were before.

[menofoz]

Halliburton third-quarter net income rises 19%

AP
Monday October 22, 2007

Halliburton said today its earnings rose 19% in the third quarter, as the company continues to expand its business in the Eastern Hemisphere.

"We played football with some of the bricks of $100 bills before delivery. .... Dispatches: Iraq''s Missing Billions produced by GuardianFilms is broadcast ...
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Billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Iraq are unaccounted for www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/09/60minutes/main1302378.shtml - 83k - Cached - Similar pages


Mystery of the Missing Meters:
Accounting for Iraq''s Oil Revenue

by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch
March 22nd, 2007
"Iraq is the victim of the biggest robbery of its oil production in modern history," blazed a March 2006 headline in Azzaman, Iraq''s most widely read newspaper.After the 2003 invasion, the meters appear to have been turned off Haliburton and Parsons seem unable to deal with the routine problem of broken meters at the Southern Iraq terminals.

Greenspan Iraq war was for Oil

Paul Oneil Bush plan Iraq War before 9/11

[ghostcommand]

This is just another paragraph, among many, in the book--"The Largest Robbery In History" being committed by a Fascist Criminal Party while waving the Republican banner while screaming "War on Terror." How many times has the Bush mis-administration used the excuses of confusion, poor accounting, and incompetence to cover their tracks. All this is just phony--they have an organized effort to steal 100''s of billions of dollars from present and future taxpayers. Yes, the rubber stamping brown shirt GOP, the RNC and all of it''s minions, and a large segment of the press is aiding and abetting this "Robbery."

[tomar0317]

and the president wants billions more????? how much of the money approved "for the troops" got to the troops? Until our government tells us where this money went, not a penny more.

[micma-2009]

"Naturally, the common people don''''t want war, but after all, its the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifist for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
-- Hermann Goering(Adolf Hitler''''s Reich-Marshall)
at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII

[notblue]

Most of these posts completely ignore the fact that the militant extremists have slaughtered countless Iraqi policeman and trainees, it was a mainstay of the radicals to kidnap, bomb, torture and execute as many police recruits as they could get there hands on. That would surely account for a percentage of the losses. But of course the ingrates here at leftwing central would rather blame the hated Bush! What a bunch of narrowvisioned politically driven simpletons!

[michellem99-2009]

Party after party ain''t the answer. The people don''t really have a asy in this nanny govt. Where the people''s money go and that asre of a Bush asking for more and more for a war we never asked for..The problem is the poor person can no longer run for the white house..it is who has the most money..Is short their buying that office..aint right but that is the way it is..

[sgtrds]

It went where most of the missing money went, into numbered bank accounts in Dubai under the names of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. I mean you didn''t really think this war was about fighting terrorism, getting rid of Saddam or spreading democracy did you? this is not a war, it''s grand theft larceny and Bush and Cheney and their ilk are the thieves.

[clestes-2009]

More money goes missing, no one has any idea what it was spent on, no one knows if the money bought weapons for insurgents. This is just like the missing weapons that ended up in the insurgents hands.

God, I am so SICK AND TIRED of this endless FUBAR done by the witless and incompetent Bush administration on the US people and the US military!!

All these BILLIONS just gone and HE WANTS 200 BILLION MORE!!! This time it will certainly result in victory. How many more times is that going to said???

It will NEVER be enough. We will go BANKRUPT and it still will not be enough!!

God-d.a.m.n Bush/Cheney and the whole lying bunch of scumbags who started this TOTAL FIASCO!!!

We will never recover from this. They have thrown away our place as world leader, the flower of our military, our children''s future, our civil rights on this illegal, irresponsible fantasy.

[stevex47]

Thanks for the goerging post Dan. Wow. And scary.

[oleander8]

This used to be called "war profiteering" and people used to go to prison for it. I hold out little hope that that will happen with this war. A lot of people have gotten wealthy with taxpayer dollars and I''m not talking about the soldiers spilling their blood.

[gunownerdan]

"Naturally, the common people don''t want war, but after all, its the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifist for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
-- Hermann Goering(Adolf Hitler''s Reich-Marshall)
at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII

[tejasdemo]

I bet if it gone for children''s healthcare in the US the Republicans would be throwing a fit !

[prairiefox1]

Did we send National Guard troops to Vietnam? Korea? WWII? What was the last major military involvement that involved National Guard troops? Why did we have to resort to sending them, instead of Army/Marines?


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Posted by berniepeders a

JUST WATCH A GUARD AD ABOUT THE GOOD TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES AND HEAR THEM SAY THAT THEY ARE RESCUING PEOPLE AND NOT FIGHTING A WAR! THEN THE YOUNG PEOPLE JOIN AND AFTER TRAINING THEY HAVE TO FIGHT AND BE KILLED!
I AM TIRED OF THE RECRUITING LIES AND I WANT THIS CROOKED GOVERNMENT TO STOP THIS PRACTICE!

[gunownerdan]

Since most democrats and republicans profit from war, endless war is their dream come true.
The military industrial complex is a hungry monster.

[bareemperor]

Some defense contractors and their buddies will retire rich, the rest of US will suffer with Bu$h''s endless wars.

[bareemperor]

Could the $$$ jave gone up Dubya''s NOSE???

[prairiefox1]

THIS IS THE PRIME REASON WHY WE MUST BREAK AWAY FROM THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES AND SEEK A THIRD PARTY! CORRUPTION IS RAMPANT AND THE USA IS BEING BLED DRY!
WE MUST CORRECT THIS!

[bm6005]

During WWII they had laws against profiteering and theft from the military/gov''t. What happened? Oh that''s right it was a democratic party plot to steal money from good corporate citizens. NOT!!!!!!! Hang these ***, NOW!!!!

[frankly6]

"Lack of controls" and "serious contract management issues" at the INL bureau made it "vulnerable to waste and fraud," Bowen said.

Billions have gone missing in Iraq. The Republican Iraq boondoggle has been the single biggest theft from the American taxpayer in the history of this country. I am sure that most of these "no-bid" contractors will follow Halliburton, moving their headquarters to Dubai where they''ll be conveniently out of reach of the American legal system.