Are now becoming matters of public record. Like the case of the Bush administration sending $4.3 billion dollars in cash into Baghdad, right after the fall. Where did the money go? Who knows. It came in in literal palettes. Bundles of cash, wrapped in plastic, taken from the Treasury, loaded on C-130s and flown into Baghdad. There was so much cash, they were playing football with it on the airfields.
Where did it go? Who knows. That's what Paul Bremmer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, says. Nice.
This is just the beginning of the Iraq fraud that could be uncovered. I remember a GAO report from about a year after the start of the war that said that eight billion dollars had been sent over which was completely unaccounted for. Eight billion! Just in the first year.
What amazed me at the time was that I would switch over to Fox News and hear about the "Oil For Food" scandal, which, at it's worst was I think around $30 million, as this huge deal. When in reality eight billion was being bilked from the American people as those shows aired.
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