Missing plane loads of cash in Iraq

[level.eleven]

The US government can't account for 10 C-130s stuffed with shrink wrapped $100 bills. The total comes out to around $6.6 Billion.

It can be spun as a drop in the bucket, but the mental image of $100 bills being passed out from the back of a plane burns a little when you look at the old paycheck.

It was believed to be the largest monetary airlift ever executed. How many money bombs do we drop to classify $12 Billion as "believed"?

More than $6 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds lost - Yahoo! News

 

[Libertarian01]

To All,

Anybody up for a trip to Iraq???

I think a 10% finders fee would be more than fair!

Regards,

Doug

 

[flatlander]

Back in '04 they had un-secured rooms full of "footballs" that they paid people with. Seeing a room stacked floor to ceiling/ wall to wall with shrink wrapped $100's is almost too much to handle. I'm sure a lot went down the rabbit holes of personal expenditures.
Just sayin'
Bob

 

[flatlander]

To All,

Anybody up for a trip to Iraq???

I think a 10% finders fee would be more than fair!

Regards,

Doug

C'mon over. The weather is great

Bob

 

[E5RANGER375]

probly half of it went into the hands of people killing american soldiers

 

[phylodog]

I don't see a problem unless the printing presses are broken.

 

[tv1217]

Wow, they could buy like, 5 hammers, for that.

 

[indykid]

Quiet please, do you know how hard it is to hide a C130 in my back yard!

 

[rambone]

Biggest heist in history?

 

[Pocketman]

probly half of it went into the hands of people killing american soldiers

Only half?

 

[Pocketman]

How ironic - this was Iraq's money from the Oil for Food program. Now they're considering holding the U.S. responsible for mishandling their funds. Took people long enough to question something that happened back in 2004.

Witnesses testified that millions of dollars were shoved into "gunnysacks" and disbursed to Iraqi contractors on pick-up trucks, with what seemed to be little financial controls or accounting on the part of the U.S. government.

 

[ocsdor]

All you slaves need to shut up, get back to work, and pay your taxes. Starting to sound like a bunch of conspiracy theorists questioning the gov't like that. What? Do you want the terrorists to win?

Alex Jones' InfoWars.net: Manning the guns in the fight against tyranny

 

[PatriotPride]

probly half of it went into the hands of people killing american soldiers

Yep. It's not lost at all. Misappropriated is more like it.

 

[E5RANGER375]

Only half?

yeah your right, i didnt factor in what the CIA took.

 

[J_Wales]

What were the flight numbers?

Can fearless leader do a ride along?

 

[M67]

C'mon over. The weather is great

Bob

I'll see you over there Bob, I'll bring the sun screen, beer, and metal detectors. Think you'd sell that old Battle Mistress of yours to me for ten grand?

 

[Prometheus]

How ironic - this was Iraq's money from the Oil for Food program. Now they're considering holding the U.S. responsible for mishandling their funds. Took people long enough to question something that happened back in 2004.

A lot of people did, but it was all "You're just hating on bush" from the republican side of the isle. From the lib side, there wasn't much being said because bush was signing off on all the insane spending...

Nice to see some people waking up finally.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Short version = It's all a scam.

 

[spearheadersarge]

I thought the biggest heist in history was the bailouts/TARP/Stimulous in '08-'09? 6.6 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to that! How many Wall Street fat cats are still living large on our money? Just chalk it up to a WAR write-off.

 

[level.eleven]

If anyone is wondering about the 2.3 trillion, here is a report on the situation.

The Pentagon can't account for 25% of its expenditures. Something to keep in the back of your head on payday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU