WASHINGTON - The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq (news - web sites) was unable to keep track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to government ministries, which lacked financial controls, security, communications and adequate staff, an inspector general has found.
This report comes right on the heals of another request for another $80 billion. I can go along with spending the money for future benefit but dern it, they better find that money! Where you have that much money, you have corruption. I'm sure that a lot of the tsunami relief is going to corruption too. mdrbowler: not trying to get you cranked up again.
BTW, Stewart went to jail not for losing money but for lying to federal prosecutors about the stock transaction - that's a "no no." Well, for most people it is . . .
I guess you expect full acounting in the middle of a war and at the start of a new goverment who's workers were unpaid for months and no system to track this. That makes sense.
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Bet No one goes to jail for this....
