Last week, an audit by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction revealed that of the $20 billion flown by the United States to Iraq, some $6.6 billion is still completely unaccounted for and believed stolen.
But Iraqi officials say the amount is much higher, with Parliament Speaker Osama Nujaifi saying that the Iraqi government’s probe found some $18 billion still missing, and that the nation’s parliament is still expecting an answer for where it went.
The US shipped the $20 billion in Iraqi government funds (part of the UN’s Oil for Food program) in physical cash, $100 bills stacked on palettes and crammed into the airplanes. There was virtually no effort to keep track of where all these $100 bills went.
But while Iraqi officials have discussed suing the US for losing their money, the government now says that the UN Security Council’s resolutions gave the US total immunity from lawsuits related to the 2003 invasion and by extension any money lost or stolen since then.
PSSS….., did any one asked Israel.., because it was a war and Israel wanted to be part of it.., then there was a report by Iraqis saying that Israelis buying Iraqis land paying cash for it and making all other kind of deals there.., I am sure the money could be transported out of Iraq.., in few times.., maybe 5.., by Israelis transport plains bringing in what was needed and taking out what Israel needed to have and or for that matter starting new Banking Business in America…??? It wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be true in few years time when a head line would read.., Money founded is the Iraqi missing Money.
Oh some chickens are 'unaccounted for' exclaims the fox. Yes, of course 'errors' were made and it is a war and the patriotic thing to do is to look the other way and never ask questions. 'Total immunity from lawsuits' – talk about a 'moral incentive' there. No wonder this war will never end. Who would want it to end. It's like a free $$$ for all.
Now seriously…does it really surprise anyone that the Bush lawyers made sure that there would be no accountability nor responsibility for whatever MIGHT happen to billions of dollars (of Iraqi money) on pallets of $100 bills being shipped into a war zone? I imagine that they were lined up at the hanger doors with wheel barrels – and not just Iraqis but military (you know, those greedy Majors and Lt. Cols who don't really make enough on salary – and the contractors/sub-contractors, like Blackwater (XE) etc. And the thousands of Bush State Dept staffers – never could figure out why there were so many of them except to collect the cash on their way out of the country. Hell, it could be anyone. Once it became common knowledge that there would be no accounting then it was as good as gone. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a whole plane never made it to Baghdad – went to one of those secret bases somewhere in Poland or GhenisKhanistan to be broken down into smaller packages…
The entire Iraqi adventure was/is about the money – cash or oil. That's all it is. But, that's just this old Curmudgeon's opinion…
With that kinda money one can do a _lot_ of photos of rappers and gangbangers covered in bling flashing cash.
Yay for Keynes.
Didn't William Gibson do a story with an Iraqi container full of cash being transported around on ships as McGuffin back in 2004 or so?
These wars are now also about starting others Pakistan,Iran,Syria,China,Russia and already Yemen.The US is going to be the reason most if not all humans and animals die because of WW3 that could start any day.Roaches will live if the warmongers of the world live they will fit right in.Sorry don't mean to make the roaches mad.