A new round of reports from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) has meant yet more embarrassments for the Pentagon and the assorted aid agencies that helped them with occupation-era reconstruction.
Not only was much of what was done ineffective, some of it is entirely undocumented, with the US Embassy forced to concede that they weren’t able to provide anywhere near a complete list of what was done as part of US-funded reconstruction projects.
But perhaps even worse, the Pentagon lost around $2 billion that wasn’t theirs to begin with. The Iraqi government signed off on transferring some $3 billion to the Pentagon in 2004 for certain projects, and the SIGIR audit was only able to account for about $1 billion of it.
Indeed what the Pentagon did period is a bit of a mystery. SIGIR reports that of the 42 monthly expense reports they were supposed to produce from July 2004 through December 2007, only the first four have ever been found. Where the other 38 went, or if they were even created at all, is unknown.
And we wonder why our economy is on the skids while the pundits blame it on everything, but the wars.
Well, at least that's a damn sight better than the 2 TRILLION Almighty Dollars that D. Rumpsfilled… the day before the 911 attack…admitted were missing. Of course, whatever actually happened at the Pentagon the next morning just happened to conveniently take out the offices of the Pentagon auditors trying to find them!
Iraq Aid Disaster? Disaster? That infers that nobody could have controlled what happened. Iraq Aid (reconstruction) is anything but a "disaster". It is, in fact, one of the few successful campaigns planned and executed in Iraq.
Stealing Iraq's money was objective number one for America. That's most likely what Bushco was really talking about when he told the nation, "Mission accomplished".
It is said that the reason why Hitler's atrocities were known is because the Nazis kept such immaculate records. Well, that's one lesson in history the USan Empire seems to have learn.