Reporting from Washington — After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born.
Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.
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Useta be we airlifted necessary supplies. I guess, when dealing with the Neocons, money is the answer to everything.
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For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history."
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At the least, they're co-conspirators.
Update:
Digby:
From the "we can't afford to pay for schools and firefighters file"
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4 comments:
I don't care if we get those two for singin' too loud in church as long as we get 'em. The stolen money issue will be fine. Or any of many.
I'd like to get 'em on every and all.
Never and none is more like it, dammit.
I wish we had a President (and a majority in Congress) with balls they had to carry around in a wheelbarrow instead of a buncha clowns with spines made of linguine.
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