posted on Nov, 10 2003 @ 07:45 AM
"Congress is about to send billions and billions of dollars to a place where there is no functioning government, under a plan with too little
accountability and too few financial controls," said Leahy. "That's a formula for mischief. We need strong disincentives for those who would
defraud taxpayers, and removing this protection is another major blot on this bill."
"We are about to spend a lot of money in Iraq, quickly and with few real controls on how it is spent," said Feinstein. "The least we can do is
prevent private companies from taking advantage of the American Government, its people, and the men and women who are risking their lives every day to
make Iraq, and the world, a better, safer place to live. It was a mistake to strip the anti-profiteering provision from the conference report, and
restoring it through this bill would send a clear signal that this kind of activity will not be tolerated."
bush inc. are loving this "war on terror"aka operation iraqi freedom" blah its all about money
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