Paul Bremer cant explain where twelve billion dollars went

Paul Bremer is unable to explain what happened to twelve Billion dollars that was spend on Iraqi pay rolls. Paul admitted that he knew that some of the people on the payrolls were didn't exist but he turned a blind eye to avoid civil disturbances.



I should be surprised and shocked but I'm not instead I have almost come to expect this sort of thing.
None existent people are going to riot ?
That's classic don't do anything about the looting but try to stop imaginary crimes from happening.

The lack of accountability is beyond disgraceful but given that private firms seem to be in just about every Americans politicians pocket I doubt that anything will change any time soon.

Im not a Liberal but I will never understand how it is wrong to use someone's tax dollars to fund Education and provide Health care to those who cant afford it and yet it is perfectly OK to fund non existent people on a payroll in the name of fighting Terror.

[edit on 12-2-2007 by UM_Gazz]

About a year ago, when this started to emerge, I heard accounts of U.S. personal, handling this cargo, played football with the bales of $100 bills. Guess all along the line there has been free picking of those 12.000 bales of a million each.

6-7 pounds of 100 bills=one million dollar.

Who could resist, especially if knowing there was no account. Beside they had to have the local ecomomy keep running.

I bet quiet a few of those hundreds probably ended up in Iran as payment for armor and explosives.

With 12B I could have put 300000 Americans to work for a full year.

That's leadership for ya...

It will be very interesting indeed, to see whose pockets the money is found to be in, if it is ever found at all.

I wonder if a list has been compiled somewhere of all the money that had come up "missing" during this administration....